Summary 　Individual lifestyle-based eating education on how to eat and how to taste is essential for improving our health and optimizing our activity throughout our lives. Eating education plays an important role in spreading information about the importance of appropriate mastication and diet for mental and physical nutrition. As a first step, the motto Kamming 30（“Chewing 30 times”） has been proposed in Japan. Eating education for the optimization of dental health, including appropriate mastication, is the next step. 　A 5-year national eating education promotion project will start in FY2011. It will promote eating education appropriate to individual life stages through the collaboration of various specialists. In addition to the current dietary education for infants and school children, dietary education for the elderly, which focuses on support of oral function and safety, including the prevention of aspiration and choking caused by aging-related oral dysfunction, will be promoted.