It is a subject that studies the relationship between food, nutrition and human health. This subject is highly scientific, social and applied, and is closely related to the national economy and people's livelihood. It plays an important role in improving people's physique, preventing diseases and protecting and promoting health. In fact, this course contains two different but closely related disciplines, namely, nutrition and food hygiene. Nutrition studies the physiological effects and beneficial effects of nutrients and other bioactive substances in food on human health; Food hygiene or food safety is to study the harm of various harmful factors contained in or mixed with food to human health and safety and its preventive measures.
Professional definition: Food hygiene and nutrition mainly study the interaction between food and organisms, as well as the basic knowledge and skills of distribution, transportation, digestion and metabolism of food nutrients in organisms, and carry out nutrition guidance, food hygiene supervision and testing. For example: the compilation of clinical nutrition recipes for different diseases, the detection of bacteria and molds in food, the supervision and management of the hygiene of commercial restaurants, etc.
The main courses of food hygiene and nutrition include basic nutrition, clinical nutrition, food hygiene, food technology, food toxicology, cooking, physiology, biochemistry and epidemiology. Some colleges and universities are trained in the following professional directions: food quality and safety.
Training objectives: Through four years of professional study, students are trained to have basic knowledge, basic theories and basic skills in basic medicine, nutrition and preventive medicine and clinical medicine, so that graduates can become senior nutrition professionals engaged in mass nutrition guidance, health care and nutrition knowledge publicity and education, disease prevention, hospital clinical nutrition treatment and food preparation guidance. Employers such as schools, pre-school education institutions, hotels, nutrition departments of hospitals, institutions of higher learning, scientific research units, centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) at all levels, health supervision offices, food and drug administration, community health service centers, schools, and health management institutions.
Training requirements: Students in this major should master the basic knowledge and skills of basic medicine, clinical medicine, nutrition and food hygiene, and master the basic theories, methods and health and epidemic prevention skills of epidemiology and health statistics.
Knowledge and ability: master the basic theoretical knowledge and food hygiene detection skills of basic medicine, clinical medicine, nutrition and food hygiene; Being able to engage in the supervision, detection and management of nutrition and food hygiene; Familiar with national food hygiene laws and regulations; Have a certain knowledge of social medicine, labor hygiene, environmental hygiene and occupational diseases, and have the ability of investigation and research and scientific thinking methods.
Curriculum: basic nutrition, clinical nutrition, food hygiene, food technology, cookery, food toxicology, histology and embryology, human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, medical statistics, epidemiology, English, computer, etc.
Employment direction: The employment prospect of this major is very broad. Graduates can engage in nutrition and food hygiene technical work, food safety inspection, nutrition and food safety service department, food enterprises, food circulation, various catering industries and teaching units at all levels, as well as community nutrition and health management and community health care. ?
Medical and health units: nutrition guidance, clinical nutrition treatment and health knowledge popularization; Food enterprises: food technology, food hygiene and quality inspection; Government and institutions: food hygiene supervision and food safety inspection.