Nutritionists are also divided into clinical nutritionists, public nutritionists, food nutritionists, sports nutritionists and catering nutritionists because of their combination with different objects.
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 nutritionist: also known as public nutritionist, whose work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition survey, planning of various social activities related to nutrition, and planning of film and television literature 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, mainly responsible for food-related nutrition work such as food development.
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.
development prospect
Nutrition has been paid more and more attention by more and more countries, and engaging in nutrition work has become a new hot occupation. As an expert in dietary health, prevention of nutritional deficiency diseases and nutritional treatment of diseases, nutritionists have played a very important role in formulating dietary nutrition guidelines, designing and making therapeutic health care recipes and developing food in families, hospitals, schools, health care centers, food enterprises and other institutions.
At the meeting of 196 1 ILO Committee on the Definition of World Occupational Standards, the Swedish Dietitian Association put forward the definition of dietitian and suggested that dieting should be used as a special word for dieticians. 1967, the world labor organization clearly defined nutritionists and public health nutritionists. The former refers to nutritionists who serve patients in medical institutions, while the latter refers to nutritionists who serve healthy people in public health institutions. Later, we gradually divided into management dietitians, consulting dietitians, research dietitians, sports dietitians, private dietitians and other dietitians engaged in different types of work.