St. Andrew\u27s University has conducted fifteen anual work camps in Bali, Indonesia. Through the camps, we have constructed care facilities to accommodate 120 junior and senior high school students, and have interacted with 2,OOO children and youths. A total of 400 Japanese students participated in the camps, and most of them noted that children in Bali are unusually tall and thin. Imai, a St. Andrew\u27s nurse who participated in the fourteenth and fifteenth camps, wondered about the nutritional status and physical growth of children in Bali. She suspected that the disproportionate height and thinness of the Bali children is due to poor nutritional conditions, resulting in insufficient growth. Hayashi and Imai initiated the current study as a means of providing preliminary proof of this hypothesis. For this study, we used the data from physical examinations of 96 pupils in an elementary school attached to the Bali Protestant Christian Church, since comprehensive data for all students in Bali were not available. We compared the data with those of school health statistics collected by the Japanese Ministry of Education in 1950 and 1999. Items compared were height,weight, growth, and growth index. The results revealed that pupils in Bali develop more erratically and proportionately less than Japanese pupils in terms of both height and weight. In addition, only half of the Bali pupils showed a normal obesity index, and the rest were either "thin" or "very thin" due to their non?nutritious diet． Due to the limited data availabie ，a complete analysis of the Bali children was not possible in the current study ．In the near future we hope to collect more data and attempt a total analysis by means of hemanalysis and by examining the correlation between diet and height and weight
