Expectations for nutritionists who contribute to comprehensive medicine

Abstract

As Hippocrates said, “Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food,” food is an element in forming the basis of our overall health. Although we seem nowadays to have more than enough food, homemade cooking culture has declined significantly. In addition, warm human relationships developed through food culture are rapidly being lost. At certified day-care centers and kindergartens, elementary, junior-high, and high schools, we are encountering serious issues rooted in the dietary environment, issues such as unbalanced diets, excessive increase in appetite, and refusal of food. In particular, infants and young children who do not seem to be excited about deliciousness are increasing. Food distortion seen in such dietary environments is definitely connected to the distortion of life. Nutritionists including those with national certification (hereinafter “Nutritionists”) play an important role in contributing to the improvement of functional diseases caused by distortion of life. In addition, everyone has a desire to continue eating food orally until the end of life, therefore, Nutritionists also have a major role to play for people with serious illnesses. In this article, I would like to explain what is expected from Nutritionists from the standpoint of nutritionists and vocational culinary schools.