Some people sum up China's food culture into three words: nourishment, taste and harmony. Raising is nutrition; Taste is taste; Harmony is the communication of interpersonal relationships.
Eating nutritious food requires the work of nutritionists. Speaking of nutritionists, some people scoff: who can't cook? Who does not understand "nutrition"? Isn't it just eating more vegetables and less meat? This is a misunderstanding of dietitian's work by many people at present. In fact, a qualified professional catering nutritionist is a "nutritionist, doctor and chef". Professional catering nutritionists study nutrition collocation, nutrition complementation and nutrition balance. According to different people's age, height, weight and physical strength, calculate how many kilocalories are needed a day. Although many people know that they should eat more vegetables and less meat, they are still far from the nutritional requirements. The main job of professional catering nutritionists is to study the relationship between nutrients (such as vitamins and protein) in food and human functional requirements, that is, to guide people to "what to eat, how to eat and how much to eat".
At present, there are 400,000 professional nutritionists in Japan, with 1 for every 330 people, while there are less than 4,000 nutritionists in China, with 1 for every 300,000 people. Most of them are distributed in hospitals and other institutions, serving special people, and few of them are for the general public. Foreign nutritionists focus on the field of mass nutrition, and medical nutrition is just one of them. Not long ago, the former Ministry of Health revealed that all collective feeding units should be equipped with nutritionists in the future, and the management system and requirements for nutritionists are being drafted. Liu Jiaoshou from the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Fudan University suggested that hotels should also be equipped with full-time nutritionists.
According to the survey, Japanese teenagers at the peak of their growth and development are 3 cm taller than their peers in China. This is inseparable from Japan's high attention to nutrition. According to Japanese law, any canteen that can accommodate 100 people must be equipped with at least 1 nutritionist. Therefore, Japanese nutritionists are widely distributed in hospitals, schools, canteens, hotels, food processing enterprises and government departments. If there are 1 nutritionist for every 330 people in Japan, the population of China1300 million needs about 4 million professional catering nutritionists.
There is a lack of qualified professional catering nutritionists in China. With the cancellation of medical nutrition specialty in professional colleges, there are fewer and fewer medical nutritionists in ordinary classes, let alone professional catering nutritionists. At present, among domestic universities, only Sun Yat-sen University and Sichuan University have nutrition majors. Because of the large demand, the employment prospects of graduates are still quite good. There are no more than 30 graduates majoring in nutrition in Sun Yat-sen University every year, and they are robbed as soon as they graduate. Experts suggest that nutritionists don't have to stick to medical background. Many nutritionists abroad are trained by agricultural colleges and food processing majors.
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