Dietitians are the main providers of health care services. Due to undecided legislation, there is a shortage of nutritionists in China. Dietitians are divided into diet, clinic, health management, consultation and other work directions according to their fields. Among them, the industry has put forward the professional ethics and rules of nutritionists.
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 dietitians, also known as public dietitians, are related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition survey, planning of various nutrition-related social activities, and 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.
Professional requirements:
College degree or above in nutrition, health care, basic medicine, food science and other related majors.
International Nutritionist Association (INCA) International Registered Nutritionist Qualification Certification: INCA is an international dietitian industry organization approved by the US government, and there is no relevant examination in China.
Domestic: The qualification certification of clinical nutrition professional doctors of the Ministry of Health is limited to the medical staff engaged in nutrition work in hospitals and enjoys the right to prescribe.
Working experience in clinical nutrition food; Familiar with relevant professional theoretical knowledge, such as basic knowledge of medicine, basic knowledge of nutrition, basic knowledge of population nutrition, basic knowledge of food nutrition and food processing, reasonable selection and cooking, understand the evaluation method of food nutritional value, food pollution prevention and health requirements of various foods, be able to choose foods from both nutritional value and food hygiene, and prepare catering foods suitable for their nutritional needs according to the age, height, weight and physical strength of different people. Must have a certain research and development ability, be able to put forward suggestions and programs according to the tastes and needs of the target, play the role of consulting and guiding services, and coordinate and guide the whole food supply process. Have certain written and oral expression skills, and be familiar with the laws and regulations of this major.