The 5th Golden Dumbbell Forum on Nutrition and Health Industry has opened, with the focus of discussion on "Nutritional Ecology and Ecological Nutrition" (also known as "Ecological Nutrition Thinking"). It is a new innovative approach for research and development of nutrition and health products discovered by Shuzheng Kangxun in the process of continuous industry development research, and is being attempted by some technology-based enterprises at home and abroad, Products developed and produced based on this approach are likely to become the main direction of industry development.

What we refer to as nutritional ecology is a healthy environment, which simply means the various factors that lead to nutritional imbalances in the body and their interrelationships, including external factors such as social culture, dietary habits, food quality, environmental pollution, etc; And internal factors of the body, such as dysbiosis of the gut microbiota, various diseases (invisible inflammation), mental stress, and oxidative stress. If the nutritional ecology is balanced, it is a benign nutritional ecology; On the contrary, it is a poor nutritional ecology that requires nutritional intervention to prevent harm to health.

What we call ecological nutrition is a solution that is based on systems theory and ecological perspectives. It evaluates the nutritional ecology that causes a certain health problem (overall or local) in the human body, and based on this result, customizes a systematic nutritional intervention solution to help the human body restore nutritional ecological balance and solve health problems. This solution can be a material product, or a combination of service products and material products, with the basic feature that the effectiveness of utilizing natural nutritional components can be evaluated.

The combination of nutritional ecology and ecological nutrition concepts is called ecological nutrition thinking, which refers to a new concept that guides the development of new nutritional and health products. The product developed based on ecological nutrition thinking is called an ecological nutrition and health product. Its main characteristics are: clear ingredients and sources from natural nutrients, clear balance between nutritional efficacy and human function, and evaluable changes in body function before and after intake, that is, the combination of material products and service products is necessary.

In the current special situation of the development of the nutrition and health product industry, we believe that discussing ecological nutrition thinking is of great significance for industry progress, enterprise development, and consumer security:

For the industry, Healthy China has once again put forward the guiding ideology of prevention as the main focus, giving the nutrition and health industry a historic development opportunity. Especially at the current crossroads where the "blue hat" policy is headed, ecological nutrition thinking can help the industry find scientific, industrial, and regulatory positioning that meets development needs.

For enterprises, ecological nutrition thinking can guide them to discover new market opportunities, establish barrier based product research and development platforms, develop new nutrition intervention solutions, including human nutrition evaluation, nutrition intervention, and re evaluation and re intervention after intervention, improve market service and competitiveness, and catch up with development trends.

For consumers, ecological nutrition thinking helps to establish a more scientific and popular knowledge system of nutrition and health, making it easier for them to comprehensively, systematically, and targeted grasp the scientific relationship between nutrition and human health, making it easy for them to understand the role of products and make consumption decisions, while avoiding being deceived.

The above brief explanation of ecological nutrition thinking is only the preliminary results of the research process of the Shuzheng Kangxun team. We look forward to more scholars and enterprises joining in the research not only on this Golden Dumbbell Forum, but also after the forum, so that ecological nutrition thinking can develop into a widely accepted basic scientific theory of nutrition and health products, which can help industry regulation solve difficulties and pave the way for enterprise innovation.