Ando Foundation and Nissin Food Products Release "Nourishing Wellbeing" Report

Ando Foudation — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0900

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 14, 2025 /Kyodo JBN/ --
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Ando Foundation and Nissin Food Products Release "Nourishing Wellbeing" Report: Second Study Again Proves Strong Relationship Between Food and Wellbeing

The Ando Foundation (hereinafter "the Foundation") and Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "the Company"), in cooperation with Gallup, a global analytics and advisory firm based in the United States, have released the latest results of a follow-up study on nourishing wellbeing, proving the strong relationship between food and wellbeing again as did the first report (2023 edition).

Although it is widely accepted that food is the foundation of health, the direct relationship between food and wellbeing had not been made clear for many years. This led the Foundation and the Company, together with Gallup, to conduct the first global study in 2022 based on the hypothesis that food is an essential component of wellbeing, and the results were published in 2023.

"Making it clear that food satisfaction is an important indicator of improving wellbeing"

The latest study showed that people who were completely satisfied were 1.71 times more likely than those who were not to be experiencing wellbeing, and reiterated that food, like income, was an essential component of wellbeing. The connection between satisfaction with food and four societal indicators (Life Evaluation Index, Positive Experience Index, Social Life Index, and Community Attachment Index) related to quality of life (QOL) was also indicated in the study, providing evidence that the Food Wellbeing Index itself is a strong societal indicator.

Furthermore, a new discovery is the global decline in satisfaction with food, especially among young people. As background factors for it, experts point out a global decrease in opportunities for families to get together and the dilution of parent-child relationships in Japan. Regarding the situation in Japan, which did not have a high percentage of people who enjoy food, they also recommend the need at home and in schools for education and awareness-raising to increase wellbeing.

Click here for details: https://www.ando-zaidan.jp/news/pdf/NW_report2023_en.pdf

Ando Foundation and Nissin Food Products Release "Recipes for Wellbeing Report": First Global ...

Ando Foudation — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0900

OSAKA, Japan, Oct. 18, 2023 /Kyodo JBN/ --
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Ando Foundation and Nissin Food Products Release "Recipes for Wellbeing Report": First Global Study Reveals Direct Correlation Between Food and Wellbeing

The Ando Foundation (*) (hereinafter "the Foundation") and Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "the Company") released the Recipes for Wellbeing Report on October 18, 2023, in cooperation with global analytics and advice firm Gallup, the first global study offering a fresh perspective on the food-wellbeing connection.

(*) The Foundation was established in 1983 by Momofuku Ando, the founder of Nissin Food Products, with the belief that "food and sports are the two wheels that support health."

Gross domestic product (GDP) has long been used as an indicator to measure the scale of a country's economy. However, in recent years, the idea of constructing an alternative measure of economic prosperity to GDP ("Beyond GDP") has become widespread, and wellbeing, the state of mental, physical, and social contentment of an individual, has been drawing particular attention.

Furthermore, the "Summit of the Future," to be held at the United Nations in September 2024, will focus on building an economy and society with an emphasis on wellbeing, and nations worldwide, including Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, are attempting to measure wellbeing and apply this valuable insight to their policies.

Although it is taken for granted that food is the foundation of health, it is not considered a component of wellbeing. Therefore, the Foundation and the Company, together with Gallup, conducted a study to test the hypothesis that food is an important component of wellbeing.

The Recipes for Wellbeing Report found that those who were "completely satisfied" with their diet are 1.62 times more likely to have higher subjective wellbeing than those who were not "completely satisfied" and that food is an important component of wellbeing along with income. This is the first study in the world that proved there was a strong correlation between food and wellbeing.

Based on the results of this newly released study, the Foundation and the Company will continue to explore how food can improve wellbeing in collaboration with researchers from universities and international organizations.

Click here for details:
https://www.ando-zaidan.jp/news/pdf/RFW_release2023_en.pdf

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Ando Foundation and Nissin Food Products Release "Nourishing Wellbeing" Report

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