Century-old nutrition and health concepts can be revived and applied in the modern age in the forms of newly developedmenus, recipes, and lifestyle education. Current medical nutrition therapy concepts were first described in the ChosunDynasty (1392-1897) in Korea based on the philosophy that food and medicine originate from the same source, which isknown as ‘food as medicine’. Recognizing the importance of culture, tradition, local diet, and lifestyle on health and medicalnutrition therapy, we tried to rediscover traditional Korean approaches towards food consumption and nutrition throughsystematic review of the literature and developed contemporary menus accordingly. The medical nutrition therapyprescriptions described in ‘Shikryochanyo’ (1460) by the Chosun Dynasty’s royal physician Soonyi Jeao cover 45 differentdiseases. In this project, we developed contemporary menus for those disease models that are most prevalent in modernsociety. Menus developed with foods that are readily available today were evaluated for their nutritional content andadequacy using a computer-aided nutritional analysis program (CAN pro 3.0, developed by the Korean Nutrition Societyfor comparison with RDA for Koreans). Therefore, century-old nutrition and health concepts can be revived and applied inmodern society as newly developed menus recipes and lifestyle education.