A proposal for the modification of dietary (eating) habits of frequent disaster occurrence period

During the period of Heisei, the habit of eating out increased to 45% of the total population. At present, nearly fifty percent of meal in the form of eating out exists in Japan. Specially, the dietary style of urban area has become easier and convenient in terms of supply of food. Simultaneously, natural disasters as earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoon etc. are in increasing trend due to the global warming effect. Once the disaster occurs, life line infrastructures are either interrupted or damaged and communication networks as well as food supply chains are interrupted. And, normal life styles as well as business activities are affected. The presumption of the occurrences of the earthquake disaster in the metropolitan and the great cities of Kanto region, there exists anxiety on delay and prolonged delay on recovery of commodities supply in such cities. In such circumstances, resumption of the commodities is expected as per the execution of business continuity plan (BCP). There is a need of proper supply of food not only to the residents and the refugee in shelter, but also to the BCP personnel who works to revive interrupted or damaged infrastructures. This study emphasizes to make habitual to use disaster food as well as normal food and goods at the time of disaster period and to evaluate the hardship experienced by refugee about dietary habit.