Sally Nijim, Isra Hamdi, Stephanie Cohen, Joel T Katz, Ingrid M Ganske
Prevalence of visual art education in medical school curricula: a national survey of US medical schools
Medical education online
japan many workers exposed chronic stress sleep deprivation nutritional imbalance tend still go work ill leading decreased work performance productivity become major social problem conducted human entry study aim finding link two factors proposing optimized diet believing review diet may lead improvement labor productivity study used subjective accomplishment sa measure productivity first compared nutrient intake groups high low sa using data health survey 1564 healthy male female adults significant differences found intake 13 nutrients males 15 nutrients females including potassium vitamin insoluble fiber biotin recommended daily intake nutrients determined survey data next designed test meals containing sufficient amounts 17 nutrients conducted singlearm intervention study registration code umin000047054 kameyama city mie prefecture japan healthy working adults males females aged 2079 years recruited supplied test meals eaten day 5 days week 8 weeks sa significantly higher daytime sleepiness ds significantly lower lunch workdays younger participants 60 years ate test meals breakfast lunch results suggest sa ds change daily strongly influenced meal eaten work taking 17 nutrients may help prevent presenteeism improve labor productivity