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Environment correlative dietology：concept，
connotation and methods of studying

LI Bin

Key Laboratory of Environment Correlative Dietology，Ministry of Education/
College of Food Science and Technology，Huazhong Agricultural University，Wuhan 430070，China

Abstract Both food and environment are important factors that affect human health. The mainstream

western nutrition and dietetics focus on the study of the impact of environmental geography，climate condi⁃
tions or dietary patterns on human health，while ignoring the coupling relationship between the health func⁃
tion of traditional food and its origin，environment and human health. This article firstly comprehensively
summarized the progress on environmental geography，dietary patterns and human health，and defined the
research scope of environment correlative dietology.“Environment correlative dietology”can be roughly de⁃
fined as a systematic science that adopts modern scientific methods to study the relationship and mechanism
of eating and health in a specific environment based on the oriental people's concept“nature-mankind corre⁃
spondence”and the particularity of their physique. Then，the relationship between food and environment
coupling to health by taking cold and hot syndromes which distinguishes Chinese from Western because of
their physical constitution and dietary habits as an example was systematically discussed. Finally，the mod⁃
ern research methods in environment correlative dietology were introduced. As a new interdisciplinary sub⁃
ject，environment correlative dietology focuses on the study of traditional oriental dietary nutrition on the
basis of environment，and the health effects of eating with mixed diet under specific environmental condi⁃
tions. Relevant research results in this field will provide reference for the development of Chinese traditional

food including environmental geographic food and seasonal food.
Keywords environment correlative dietology；dietary patterns；character and taste of food；cou⁃

pling；health；nutrigenomics；proteomics；metabonomics

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