Linkage between stress and metabolic syndrome

We compared the status of stress with and without metabolic syndrome in Japanese. We used data for 774 men and 1,136 women who had received annual health checkups at Okayama Southern Institute of Health. Status of stress was evaluated using a stress check provided by the Department of Public Health, Nihon University. Metabolic syndrome is defined by new criteria in Japan. Physical stress was significantly higher in men with metabolic syndrome than in men without it. However, the ability of coping with stress in men with metabolic syndrome was significantly higher than that in men without it. Thus a linkage between metabolic syndrome and the status of stress was characteristic in Japanese men

The Creation of School Education Bringing up a Student Carrying Tomorrow (3) : The Valuation of "Compulsory Subjects", "Optional Subjects", and "Integrated Subjects"

The purpose of this study is to show the valuation of "Compulsory Subjects", "Optional Subjects", and "Integrated Subjects", to show the relationship between each subjects and "three abilities", "the ability of recognizing othere senses of value", "the ability of self-expression and communication" and "the ability of decision-making" which defined by the project members. The main result of this study is that we should make up the standards which teachers, students and parents recognize as important abilities

The Creation of School Education Bringing up a Student Carrying Tomorrow (4) : Training and The Valuation of "the Ability of Self-expression and Communication"

The purpose of this study is to show how develop and evaluate the students' "ability of self-expression and communication", which was described by the project members in "Compulsory Subjects", "Optional Subjects", and "Integrated Study". We remark on two points: the development of internal representation and awareness of others. The results were that we reached a definition of "the ability of self-expression and communication" and we saw an increase in the awareness of others in students who had been perceived to have low awareness at the beginning of the program