A nutritionist, in a broad sense, refers to a professional engaged in nutrition. He not only has rich nutrition professional knowledge, but also has some nutrition-related work experience and accumulated some experience, and has rich qualifications in this industry.
Nutritionists are also divided into clinical nutritionists, public nutritionists, food nutritionists, sports nutritionists and catering nutritionists because of their combination with different objects.
Clinical nutritionists are mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. They mainly work in hospitals and are often called nutritionists. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.
Public nutritionists, also known as public nutritionists, 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 is 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, this kind of human nutrition 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.
It can also be divided into more detailed nutritionists according to the nature of work, such as beauty nutritionists, health care nutritionists and so on.