title: A new food guide in Japan: the Japanese food guide Spinning Top.
abstract: The Dietary Guidelines for Japanese, released in 2000, provides the basics of a healthy diet for the people of Japan. In July 2005, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan jointly released a new pictorial guide, The Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top, to help people implement the Dietary Guidelines for Japanese. It guides people as to what kinds and how much food they should eat each day to promote health. This paper describes the nature of the diet and the theoretical framework applied in the development of the new guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Center for Collaboration and Partnership, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan. nobuoyos@nih.go.jp
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshiike
authors.forename: Fumi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Yukari
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takemi
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizoguchi
authors.forename: Fukue
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Seino
mesh_terms: D005502:Food / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*