On World Health Day in 2005, the dietary status of kindergartens, schools, communities and residents' families was investigated by focus interviews. The survey found that although the dietary nutrition status of urban and rural residents in China has obviously improved, at the same time, China is also facing the dual challenges of nutritional deficiency and unbalanced nutritional structure.
China is considering the introduction of the first national nutrition regulation (draft), which clearly stipulates that all kindergartens and schools, and even communities, should be equipped with professional nutritionists. In today's increasingly integrated world politics, economy, culture and education, talents can only strive for a broader development space if they are in line with international standards.
Refinement of nutritionist training. With the continuous expansion of the nutritionist training market, nutritionist training is gradually refined to meet the social demand for nutritionist positions. There are already training programs for children's nutrition managers, beauty nutrition managers and health education instructors.
Occupation definition
A nutritionist refers to a nutrition professional who can guide people in the fields of diet, disease prevention, adjuvant therapy, sub-health prevention and health management. And can design a good plan and follow-up service through strict basic nutrition theory study and professional clinical nutrition skills training. In the legislation of the Nutritionist Law, obtaining a skill certificate (defined by expert Li) will be regarded as a qualification.
Broadly speaking, it refers to professionals engaged in nutrition work, who not only have rich nutrition professional knowledge, but also have certain nutrition-related work experience and accumulated certain experience, and have rich professional qualifications in this industry.
Job classification
Dietitians are first implemented in China by the Commercial Catering Service Development Center of the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. In order to simplify the training content, nutritionists are divided into clinical nutritionists, public nutritionists, food nutritionists, sports nutritionists and catering nutritionists because of different combined objects.
Nutritionist: The issuing authority is the development center of commercial catering service industry, and has been appraised by the National Professional Skills Appraisal Committee of commercial personnel. This certificate is more suitable for high-end people.
Clinical nutritionist: Mainly engaged in nutrition related to diseases, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. She mainly works in a hospital and is often called a nutritionist. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.
Public nutritionists, also known as public nutritionists, are related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, mass nutrition surveys, the planning of various nutrition-related social activities, and the planning of movies, videos and documents related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.
Food nutritionist, mainly working in food enterprises, is mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work.
Sports nutritionist: A nutritionist, professional athlete or sports enthusiast who provides nutrition guidance for athletes. Compared with ordinary people, they exercise more and their nutritional needs are quite different from ordinary people. Therefore, the nutrition of this group of people has special requirements and should be carried out by professional sports nutritionists, which is beneficial to their health.
Catering nutritionist, mainly engaged in catering-related nutrition work, such as nutrition catering plan, nutrition recipe formulation, nutrition catering personnel training, catering service personnel training, etc.
Medicinal diet nutritionist, serving food and drug companies, market associations and catering service providers. Dietetic nutritionists assist business leaders to conduct research, put forward professional opinions on management and market, and urge enterprises to produce better medicated health food on the market. It can also be divided into more detailed nutritionists according to the nature of work, such as beauty nutritionists, health care nutritionists and so on.