The dietitian's job is to make a diet plan, provide nutrition consultation and guidance, monitor the nutritional status of patients, participate in disease treatment, and participate in health education.

1. Jobs

Dietitians can work in kindergartens, schools, communities, beauty salons, outpatient departments, private hospitals, gymnasiums, food production and processing enterprises, dietitian vocational training institutions, nutrition consulting institutions and other related occupations in various enterprises and institutions.

nutritionists can engage in the following jobs: corporate dietitian consultant, private dietitian consultant, sales and consulting of nutrition and health care products, related food guidance or nutrition catering, nutrition and health related professional civil servants, nutrition consultants or guidance experts, catering and drinking in hotel and catering industry, food experts or managers with health guidance, and so on.

second, employment prospects

nutritionists have a wide range of occupations. The traditional industries include nutrition catering in hotels, restaurants and school canteens, nutrition and health care institutions, food and health care enterprises, cosmetics companies, beauty salons, hospitals and sanatoriums.

Emerging industries include: bean industry, dairy industry, student nutrition meal preparation center, vegetarian industry, senior domestic housekeeper, etc. These industries have risen quietly, and a large number of such professionals are needed. However, there are very few nutrition professionals trained by regular colleges and universities, so the employment prospects are very broad.

Job classification:

1. Clinical nutritionist:

Mainly engaged in nutrition work related to diseases, making reasonable meals for patients, designing recipes suitable for different patients, etc., mainly working in hospitals, and often called nutritionist. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the Department of Preventive Medicine of Medical College/University.

2. Public nutritionist:

Also known as public nutritionist, his work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition investigation, planning of various nutrition-related social activities, and planning of films, movies and other works related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.

3. Food nutritionist:

Mainly working in food enterprises, mainly responsible for food-related nutrition work such as food development.