Nutrition

Coordination field of nutrition

Nutrition concerns all people and has a distinctive salutogenic aspect. From a medical point of view, the focus is on topics such as dietetics and prevention, with the question as to what kind of nutrition a person needs for their recovery or for their physical as well as their soul and spiritual development. Through their food choices, each person is involved in shaping their own life. Awareness of the importance of nutrition and where food comes from in relation to the health of people and the earth plays an important role.
The production of healthy food from equally healthy soil does not end when the plants are harvested. Processing, retail, preparation and the way we eat can promote a healthy culture of nutrition. It becomes clear that an awareness of the connections between the individual processes is necessary

Structure of the coordination field

The coordination field includes ecotrophologists, dietitians, nutritionists and physician nutrition specialists, but also all physicians from other disciplines. As nutrition affects all people, everyone who is professionally involved in nutrition is addressed. The coordination field is in development and open to everyone with an interest.

Activities and related organisations

For some years now, contributions have been offered in the interprofessional part of the annual conferences of the Medical Section in the form of workshops relating to the respective conference topic.

The work in the Nutrition Department of the Section for Agriculture promotes individual competence for a self-determined form of nutrition, spans the arc from cultivation to nutritional culture and includes the social dimension in the nutritional system. Through projects, seminars, conferences, lectures and publications, points of contact are created for people who are looking for a deepening of the nutrition question through anthroposophical spiritual science.

Further reading:
Vom Acker auf den Teller. Was Lebensmittel wirklich gesund macht (AT Verlag 2021) with contributions by Maike Ehrlichmann, Machteld Huber, Ueli Hurter, Georg Soldner and many more.

The Arbeitskreis für Ernährungsforschung e.V. (Working Group for Nutritional Research) in Bad Vilbel (Germany) offers in-service training courses for qualification in the field of anthroposophical nutrition. It also conducts research projects on the importance of foods for nutrition:
https://www.ak-ernaehrung.de/

Coordination and contact

[Translate to English:] Dr. Jasmin Peschke

Dr Jasmin Peschke
Ecotrophologist
Email: jasmin.peschke@goetheanum.ch
Website: https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/thematic-areas/nutrition-department