Abstract
Recently, there has been increasing public interest in nutritional issues in developing countries, as well as learning needs of international nutrition among students in the registered dietitian training schools who have future goal toward international cooperation. Yet, it has been recognized that there is possible great gap between the contents in the Guidelines for National Examination for Registered Dietitian, those of teaching materials, and actual learning needs. Under this circumstance, this study aimed to investigate the contents on international nutrition in the existing 21 textbooks of Nutrition Education and Public Health Nutrition. It was found that several textbooks didn't meet the guidelines in international nutrition. In particular, the contents of these textbooks focus on introduction of food guide and dietary guidelines only, most of which were the information on developed countries. It is however in developing countries where the ones involved in international cooperation would actually work, and thus necessary to learn health/nutrition problems of these countries. Our finding would suggest that more information should be provided respect to not only current nutritional problems but also appropriate approach to solve these problems.
