1. Clinic nutritionist: Usually working in hospitals, community fitness centers or health care institutions, responsible for diagnosing patients' nutritional problems, listing health care plans and monitoring the effectiveness of dietary changes.
2, catering service management nutritionist: nutritionists join the catering service management industry, so that no matter three meals a day or snacks can be prepared and distributed safely, hygienically and cost-effectively.
3. Nutrition consultant: provide expert advice on nutrition, diet therapy and catering services for individuals, institutions and commercial organizations. Such nutritionists generally work in professional consulting institutions.
4. Public health nutritionist: working in the field of public health care and social services, he is responsible for understanding the nutritional needs of the public, confirming the nutritional problems in the community, proposing nutrition education projects and health promotion strategies, and providing information and consulting services to other public departments, experts and the public.
5. Dietitians in the commercial field: mostly serve food and drug companies, market associations and catering service providers. Nutritionists assist business leaders in research, give expert opinions on management and market, and urge enterprises to produce better food and nutritional products and put them on the market.
6. Research nutritionist: Usually working in universities, health care institutions and enterprises, responsible for making plans for research projects and implementing them. These projects can fundamentally improve the medical level and save the cost of catering services.
Nutritionists will create jobs in six industries. Supermarkets, restaurants, and weight loss all need nutritionists.
There are six main employment directions for public nutritionists, namely guarding the canteen of catering units or units, being a nutrition consultant or trainer of food enterprises, a beauty nutrition consultant, a diet nutrition consultant, a supermarket nutrition consultant and becoming a private nutrition consultant.
The main duty of public nutritionists is to provide healthy and nutritious catering services. Among them, as far as the responsibilities of supermarket nutritionists are concerned, it is first necessary to make a food nutrition label for supermarket food combining traditional Chinese and western medicine; Secondly, provide customers with food storage and nutritional value consultation; sequence
Carry out guidance on healthy catering in the four seasons. Industries with special skills, such as diet dietitians, personal dietitians and catering dietitians, also have corresponding service contents and processes.
The work of public dietitians is quite diverse. They should not only know the nutrition knowledge of Chinese and western medicine, but also know food hygiene and food processing technology, and also master the basic knowledge of nutrition and health care knowledge of human health. From the perspective of employment, the demand for public nutritionists is quite extensive, and government agencies, organizations, communities, kindergartens, enterprises and institutions all have demand for public nutritionists.
The forthcoming National Nutrition Regulations clearly stipulates that schools, kindergartens, communities and catering units with more than 100 people must be equipped with public nutritionists. China Nutrition Improvement Action Plan will also clearly stipulate that canteens and catering units with more than 100 people must be equipped with public nutritionists. Chefs will complete the process of matching, conditioning and adjusting recipes under the guidance of public nutritionists. Dining halls and catering units with more than 300 people must be equipped with nutrition administrators.
Second, the specific work of nutritionists
Nutritionists are professionals engaged in nutrition guidance, knowledge dissemination of nutrition and food safety, and promotion of public health. The main work includes: evaluating, managing and guiding the nutritional status of human body; Evaluate, manage and guide dietary nutrition; Evaluate the nutrition of food and formula; Consultation and education of nutrition knowledge. Nutritionists can not only play an important role in publicity and education in the community, but also provide personalized education, consultation and guidance services for the catering industry, enterprise employees, white-collar workers, senior managers, athletes and families, and their employment can be found in any food-related field.
At present, some hospitals or health management companies can make a complete nutritional assessment of people who come to the nutrition clinic, such as checking whether their height and weight are reasonable. Body composition analysis means that nutritionists use special instruments to detect and analyze whether the three indexes (water, fat and lean body weight, that is, musculoskeletal parts) that make up the human body are reasonable, so as to understand the characteristics of customers' daily diet. For those who are obviously "suspicious" or may suffer from certain diseases due to bad eating habits, nutritionists will advise them to do trace element determination and testing. The nutritional evaluation composed of these four steps is a whole, which is a very natural and coherent process for experienced nutritionists. The specific operation flow and inquiry can be deep or shallow, fine or rough, and maybe a few questions can complete this step. After completing the nutritional assessment, the nutritionist will prescribe a "prescription". "Prescription" is mostly a basic plan for the future diet, including specific suggestions on the basic composition of food, the number of meals, the time of meals, and the way of meals. The recipe will be redesigned according to the different reactions of each patient.
Nutritionists do not treat diseases, but prevent them. They mainly instruct sub-healthy people how to take in nutrition. Most sub-healthy people need health care rather than treatment.
Public dietitian occupation
Professionals engaged in nutrition guidance, dissemination of nutrition and food safety knowledge, and promotion of public health. Mainly engaged in the work including the evaluation, management and guidance of human nutritional status; Evaluate, manage and guide dietary nutrition; Evaluate the nutrition of food and formula; Consultation and education of nutrition knowledge.
The nutrition caterer is a compound talent, who should not only know nutrition, but also know how to cook, and is a profession based on mental skills. Known as the first health care doctor to protect people's health. Senior nutrition caterers and public nutritionists have the same job content.
Career profile:
In the United States, people who have obtained the qualification of dietitian can have the enviable high income and social status as doctors. Their employment direction is mainly catering and government canteens; Recommend health care products and be a private health care consultant. Dietitians and nutritionists in China have the same employment direction as those in the United States, and they have their positions in restaurants, food enterprises, health care products companies, institutions, organizations, communities, kindergartens and corporate canteens. Only nutritionists are qualified to recommend health food in the future. At the same time, the chef should complete the process of collocation, conditioning and adjustment of recipes under the guidance of nutritionists or nutritionists. In addition, public nutritionists can also run their own health clinics and be health consultants. At present, the gap between public dieticians and nutritionists in China is over 4 million.