Difference between a medicinal dietitian and a nutritionist?
The difference between the two medicinal dietitian is based on Chinese medicine health care to add ingredients to assist in the treatment, while the nutritionist is based on nutritional standards to develop nutritional menus or add nutritional supplements. \x0d\\ TCM medicinal dietitian is a professional who, under the guidance of TCM medicinal diet theory, utilizes the relevant knowledge and operational skills of nutrition, nutritional therapy, nutritional hygiene and culinary science to learn and study the combination of medicines and diets for health care and strengthening of the body, prevention and treatment of diseases, and prolonging life. \x0d\\ What knowledge and skills do TCM dietitians need to have? \x0d\(1)Learning the basic theories of Chinese medicine (yin and yang, the five elements, the doctrine of organs and images, qi, blood and fluids, etiology of disease, identification of internal organs, etc.) \x0d\(2)Learning the basic knowledge of medicinal dietetics (basic theories of medicinal dietetics, body type of dietary, the four seasons of the dietary, the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, the foundation of food, the basis of nutrition, etc.) \x0d\(3)Classical medicinal dietary recipes \x0d\(4)Disease Nutritional Sciences\\ x0d\(5)Modern Nutrition\\x0d\\ The profession of dietitian combines the characteristics of chef, health care practitioner, medical, Chinese medicine, psychologist, marketer, administrator and other professions in one, which is a more comprehensive profession. They are not only experts in food, but also in the fields of nutritional testing, nutritional fortification, nutritional assessment, etc., to help people obtain health. The career of a dietitian requires dedicated professional service to health. \x0d\ Dietitians are also divided into clinical dietitians, public dietitians, food dietitians, sports dietitians, food service dietitians, etc. because of their combination with different objects. \x0d\1, clinical dietitian: mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition work, for patients to develop a reasonable diet, design recipes suitable for different patients, etc., mainly in hospitals, also often referred to as nutritionist. Such dietitians are mostly graduates of the Department of Preventive Medicine of medical schools/medical universities. \x0d\2, public dietitian: also known as public **** dietitian, their work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutritional knowledge, group nutritional surveys, a variety of nutrition-related social activities planning, as well as nutritional knowledge publicity and education related to film and television literature and other works of the planning of the content of their work. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutritional knowledge. \x0d\3, food nutritionist: mainly in the food business, mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work. \x0d\4, sports dietitian: is for sports personnel to provide nutritional guidance to the nutritionist, professional athletes or sports enthusiasts, their exercise relative to ordinary people, the amount of exercise is larger, and its nutritional needs and the ordinary people have a greater difference. So the nutrition of this group of people have special requirements, should have a professional sports nutritionist to carry out, favorable to their health. \x0d\5, catering dietitian, mainly engaged in nutrition work related to catering, such as nutritional feeding program, development of nutritional recipes, nutritional feeding staff training, food service staff training. \x0d\6, medicinal dietitians, serving food and pharmaceutical companies, marketing associations and food service providers. Medicinal dietitians assist business leaders in conducting research and giving professional advice on management and marketing, so as to urge companies to produce better medicinal and health foods for the market. There are also more specialized dietitians based on the nature of their work, such as beauty dietitians, health food dietitians, and so on.