In p>2114, the survey report jointly issued by the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the nutritional and health status of Chinese residents was not optimistic, and the incidence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia related to diet increased year by year, and the age of patients was declining.

On World Health Day in p>2115, Focus Interview conducted a survey on the dietary status of kindergartens, schools, communities and residents' families. The survey found that although the dietary and nutritional status of urban and rural residents in China has improved obviously, at the same time, China is also facing the dual challenges of nutritional deficiency and unbalanced nutritional structure.

The first National Nutrition Regulations (Draft) under consideration in China clearly stipulates that all kindergartens and schools, 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 has been gradually refined to meet the social demand for nutritionist positions. There have been training programs for children's nutrition managers, beauty nutrition managers and health education instructors.

professional definition

nutritionist refers to a nutrition professional who can guide people in the fields of diet, disease prevention, adjuvant therapy, sub-health prevention, health management and so on through strict basic nutrition theory study and professional clinical nutrition skill cultivation, and can design good plans and follow-up services. In the legislation of nutritionist law, it will be qualified to take up the post by obtaining a skill certificate (defined by expert Li Shuyun).

in a broad sense, it refers to professionals engaged in nutrition, who not only have rich nutrition professional knowledge, but also have a period of experience and accumulated some experience in nutrition-related work, and have rich qualifications in this industry.

Job classification

Nutritionists were first promoted nationwide 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 were also divided into clinical nutritionists, public nutritionists, food nutritionists, sports nutritionists and catering nutritionists because of their combination with different targets.

Nutritionist: The certification authority is the Commercial Catering Service Development Center, which is appraised by the National Professional Skills Appraisal Committee for Business Personnel. This certificate is more suitable for high-end people.

Clinical nutritionist: Mainly engaged in nutrition 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.

public dietitians, also known as public dietitians, are related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition surveys, 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.

A food nutritionist, who mainly works in food enterprises, is mainly responsible for food-related nutrition such as food development.

Sports nutritionist: a nutritionist, professional athlete or sports enthusiast who provides nutrition guidance for athletes. Compared with ordinary people, their exercise amount is larger, and their nutritional needs are quite different from ordinary people. Therefore, the nutrition of this group of people has special requirements, and it should be carried out by a professional sports nutritionist, which is beneficial to their health.

catering nutritionist, mainly engaged in catering-related nutrition work, such as nutrition catering scheme, development of nutrition recipes, training of nutrition catering staff, and training of catering service personnel.

a medicated dietitian who serves food and pharmaceutical companies, market associations and catering service providers. Dietitians of medicated diet assist business leaders to conduct research, put forward professional opinions on management and market, and urge enterprises to produce better medicated diet health food on the market. Can also be divided into more detailed nutritionists according to the nature of work, such as beauty nutritionists, health care products nutritionists and so on.