EXHIBITION

Planning number:A11

Watanabe Kenji Laboratory

Presentation Group Representative : Kenji Watanabe (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)

Tokyo Midtown East B1F Hall A11

Challenge to ME-BYO

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

In this study group, while synchronized with the policy of the push of Kanagawa Prefecture, " me-byo ," we believe that it has a connection with society. To increase the health awareness from before becoming sick, also in order to maintain long healthy state and we are the day-to-day activities from the point of view of Chinese medicine and oriental medicine.

Japanese Kampo

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

Kampo is a Japanese traditional medicine that gets a lot of attention from the public. Western doctors decide approach to treatment by checking patients' sickness. On the other hands, Kampo doctors perform a medical examination by understanding patients' inclinations and observing a set of signs and symptoms. Therefore, Kampo doctors give different medicines to the patients who have same symptoms. It means a way of approaching to the sickness differ depending on every individuals. Japan moves into aging society rapidly. Also, medical expenses have increased promptly. Using Kampo medicine is one of the effective ways to cut healthcare cost.
If half of the patients who get flu use Kampo, Japan is able to cut nine billion yen. We diffuse the power of Kampo and make Japan's future bright.

Investigation about many generations relations and health

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

Mental health greatly affects our health. For example, compared to the situation that the person who live alone eats alone, it would have more bad influence to our health that is a case the person who live with family eat a meal alone. We have one hypothesis that people who have some relationships with different ages have resilience. Then we investigate the frequency of multi-generational exchanges and the mental effects by it. Also, we make a measure for the evaluation and verify its reliability. Based on these tests, we will show how important having many relationships with some ages.

The making of body which does not lose for a cancer

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

Chinese food therapy and Kampo medicine draw interest from cancer patients or patients of various diseases because Chinese food therapy and Kampo medicine help to prepare the physical condition.
Then, Watanabe Kenji Laboratory have the activities where we spread the ideas of medicinal cooking and Kampo medicine to the cancer patients and their families through the lectures with Kanagawa cancer center.
We set a goal to helping the cancer patient's pleasant and meaningful life with an object of going on with learning Kampo medicine and medicinal cooking.

Mental health greatly affects our health.

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

Promotion of the Me-Byo awareness to a youth
The approach to a light youth generation of the consciousness for the health is indispensable in promoting Me-Byo. I push forward Daidoh Yakuhin Kogyo and Chinese food therapy drink development as one of the approach methods in the Watanabe Kenji Laboratory. I collaborated with a dining room of the university and provided the winter Chinese food therapy drink using the chenpi until now.
By this project, Elderly person feel "Chinese food therapy drink" "Me-Byo" close in future, and the final aims include that I stretch out healthy life expectancy.

Social participation is made with a cheerful town @Yugawara

Person in Charge of the Project:Kenji Watanabe

"Me-Byo" is not a disease, but is in state that it is not healthy. We think that three factors called a meal, exercise, and social participation are necessary to cure Me-Byo. We focus on "social participation" in that. If circle activity for local committee and inhabitants is activated, a connection and the definite aim with the person are born and will extend to the birth healthy life expectancy. Therefore we Watanabe Kenji Laboratory assumes Yugawara in Kanagawa a field and makes the structure which much Yugawara inhabitants have the connection with various people and can live for lively and challenges it.
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