Biography:
Shaw Watanabe graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1964. He was the director of the Department of Epidemiology at the National Cancer Center and a Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture. He became President of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition (NIHN), researching health and longevity through diet and exercise.
He was President of the 8th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Nutrition (APCCN) in 2013 and served as President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Nutrition (APCNS) from 2018 to 2022. At the age of 80, he concentrated on health effects of brown rice and established the Medical Rice Association with the aim of "curing unwellness prior to disease."
Title : Low protein Genmai (Brown rice) for the prevention of CKD progression by improving the gut-kidney axis