Relationship between health behavior and lifestyles/health status among Japanese adults

In recent years, Japanese adults have been consciously changing their core health behaviors. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between the practice of health behavior and lifestyle/health status. We conducted a questionnaire survey during August and September in 2002 in ‘A’ city, Chiba. There were 464 valid responses (62.0%: 203 males, 261 females). 71.4% of subjects had a willing to do health behavior. Elderly females had the highest motivation to engage in health behavior. Among health behaviors, the use of dietary supplement was most popular (42.9%), especially females were more likely to use it than males (p