The implication of nutritional psychopedagogy in the matrix of personal development

• Main Author: Maria Dorina PASCA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Galati University Press 2010-08-01
• Series: Annals of the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati. Fascicle VI: Food Technology
• Subjects: balance; attitude; cognition; implication; individual; nutrition; nutritional psycho pedagogy
• Online Access: http://www.ann.ugal.ro/tpa/Anale%202010/vol%201/Full%20paper%20MPasca.pdf

The birth of conceptual nutritional psycho-pedagogy represents the compulsory matrix for the development and maintenance of human and personal value. Thus, it must respond both from the point of view of attitude and behavior through education and from a structural point of view to the social command, enclosing the individual in a quality segment of his existence, starting from the nutritional act. Being a new and interdisciplinary domain, nutritional psycho pedagogy, determines, by the implication in the personalized act of nutrition, the acknowledgment of the fact that “eating is an art” and, at the same time, it makes responsible the ones who sustain that “they live to eat” and/or “they eat to live”. This fact cognitively implies both the acknowledgment and the application of the component elements necessary for the approach of a healthy life style which determines the improvement of the life quality, as a response of personal identity. We wonder: Is the nutritional psycho pedagogy able toanswer the question “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are”.