When I was invited to write this article inside and outside the classroom, the public dietitian had not been cancelled. It may be a bit biased to post this article now, because I am lazy and haven't made any changes to it. It is a commemoration to cancel the public dietitian.

The following is the text.

Whenever I say "I am a nutritionist", I often encounter the following reactions:

"Really? ! What can I eat to lose weight? "

"That XXX (product name) can eat? You give me a recipe ~ "

Whenever I encounter this kind of reaction, I will secretly sigh: "I knew this would happen ..."

Tell the truth, is the nutritionist really so versatile?

The broadest definition of dietitian: a person who has completed the training course of dietitian and obtained the recognized professional qualification. In Taiwan Province Province, nutritionists are one of the medical staff, and they need to apply for a license from the health authorities. In the past, nutritionists were generally divided into two categories: public nutritionists and clinical nutritionists.

Public nutritionists are professionals engaged in nutrition guidance, knowledge dissemination of nutrition and food safety, and promotion of public health. Clinical nutritionists are professionals who have been systematically trained by medical colleges to provide nutritional treatment for sub-health and acute/chronic patients. At present, the number of nutritionists in China is mainly public nutritionists.

Is there a difference between the thresholds of these two types of nutritionists?

The answer is: yes, and the threshold difference is still a bit big.

As far as difficulty is concerned, it is much less difficult to become a public dietitian than a clinical dietitian. The first requirement of a clinical dietitian is that you should be a medical student and have received formal training in the medical system. Since public dietitians began to obtain certification in 2005, they did not require learners to have medical background or basic medical knowledge in the past. In some fields, they gradually evolved into paying for certificates. In contrast, it seems quite easy to become a public dietitian. But I believe that smart people must understand that having a certificate does not mean having real skills. If you want to be a dietitian, even if it seems easy to be a public dietitian, you must first practice a set of necessary attributes before you can continue.

To be a nutritionist, you can sum it up with "Five Fingers Magic", but don't mess up your talent!

The first finger: basic eating attribute skills.

As we all know, nutritionists mainly help people get a healthier state by "eating". How can you instruct others if you don't know how to eat? Therefore, the attribute of eating goods is very important! Please try all kinds of food, including some controversial things that may be disgusting. As a Sichuanese, I grew up in the land of abundance, surrounded by delicious food, and I am half a chef. I also studied Chinese and western cooking, and I thought I had some experience in how to eat, hehe ~)

Why is "eating property" the most basic thing? Take chestnuts for example. Your consultant suffers from iron deficiency anemia, and your suggestion is to increase the intake of lean meat from cattle and sheep in the diet. But the consultant thinks the takeaway is too greasy and wants to make it himself. When he asked you to cook (don't believe it, I really met ...), you got stuck. I think a crow will fly in the air, leaving six dots. This scene is not only embarrassing, but also you didn't play a good role as an intervention consultant.

In the process of work, you need to constantly deal with the two problems of "how to eat in the past" and "how to eat in the future". If you are not familiar with "eating", please make up your own collapse scenario:

"I ate bait last night." "Oh ..." (What is bait? )

"Could it be that I ate too much fried grass?" "It's also possible ..." (What the hell is a grass head! ? )

"Can I still eat Philippine avocados?" "Hmm ..." (Are you sure there is this kind of fruit? )

"I like soup very much, but it is always worthwhile to make fish soup." "Er ..." (You ask me who I am asking ...)

……

In fact, as early as learning professional knowledge at school, we were "destroyed" by all kinds of food. Can you imagine there are two cream cakes for you to eat in front of you? In fact, one is real cream and the other is fake cream, so that you can tell the truth from the false after tasting them separately. Anyway, after that class, someone had diarrhea for a week and kept walking against the wall. You also need to learn all kinds of cooking. If you are the apple of your eye at home, you will be miserable, because all the finished products need to be eaten by yourself. I once saw a girl eat her own fried steak and then spit it out.

The second finger: natural attribute-memory

Public nutritionists, subject knowledge, science scores like stones, accounting for 35%, liberal arts scores like pulp, accounting for 65%. If you have a good foundation in science and know the knowledge in professional fields, there will be a buff bonus.

But if you want to understand it purely, you can't be an excellent public dietitian. After all, there are many basic professional knowledge related to public dietitians that you must remember first, even by rote. For example, the definition, physiological significance and function of energy-supplying nutrients, the functions and symptoms of various vitamins and minerals, and the nutrition intervention ideas of different groups of people … all these need to exist in the depths of your brain without any tricky channels.

The third finger: the attribute of gas field-draw inferences from one another.

In the past, I talked with many colleagues and interviewed many nutritionists, and found that quite a few people always stayed in the stage of "dead reading", but only put the knowledge they came into contact with into their minds and could not use it. What's the use of asking you! )

Take chestnuts for example. Regarding the physiological function of triglycerides, there is a description in professional books: "Save the use of protein and increase the feeling of fullness". If you just memorize this description without using it in practice, it is really useless. If it can be linked with reality, it will correspond to the guidance for dieters, reminding dieters to eat fat reasonably in their diet, which can reduce the loss of muscles, reduce the pain of hunger and easily gain more scientific slimming effects. Therefore, only by transforming theoretical knowledge into such self-thinking can we have our own truly usable weapons.

Fourth finger: reward attribute-refining conversion

Hmm ... a good nutritionist, why not just say "fine points"? If you just want to answer the counselor's question, it's easy, but if you want to really help the counselor solve the problem, you must be schizophrenic every time you intervene and guide, and turn yourself into a counselor, so as to provide more valuable help. Today, with the emphasis on the word "user experience", if we can't think from the consultant's point of view why he raised such a question and what kind of environment he may have caused, it will be difficult to really help the audience solve the problem. Nutrition intervention itself is slow to take effect. If you go too far in the guidance process, then the consultant will doubt your professionalism and then question the level of the dietitian industry.

Therefore, I was once dubbed by my colleagues as "a thousand women live in my heart" (ahem, it's not what you think! ), it is because every time I face different people's consultation, I always habitually imagine myself as a consultant, providing nutrition intervention guidance from their perspective, so as to ensure that I can provide the most appropriate advice in the shortest time.

Fifth finger: Special attribute-sense of humor.

In any process of dealing with people, a sense of humor is worth making good use of. Holding chestnuts humorously can help laymen (that is, your consultants) easily understand what you want to express and make the intervention more effective.

For example, many little girls now believe in the phrase "eat starch to gain meat" and think that they can avoid gaining meat without eating starch. Then the problem is coming. There are only three nutrients that provide energy, carbohydrate (starch), protein and fat. If you eat only protein and fat instead of starch, you won't gain weight. It's like you don't want to spend money, so you never take your wallet when you go out, but use your mobile phone Alipay and credit card to brush it, and then tell yourself "I have no money".

Give me another chestnut. Some people always say that sitting down after exercise will make your ass bigger. If it is true, that would be great. Girls with small breasts should put their breasts on the stool after exercise. This is a good way for natural breast enhancement! (Looking up at the sky and sighing ...)

Now that we have mastered five attributes, let's move on.

Ability requires two and a half stars.

As mentioned above, it is not particularly difficult to obtain public dietitian certification. You just need to remember the basic knowledge, which is a small case for you who have been baptized by the college entrance examination, and the difficulty is less than one week.

However, if you want to master the "five-finger magic", your ability needs two and a half stars. In addition to the "five-finger magic", strong self-learning ability, information mining and integration ability, speech ability and marketing ability are all essential.

As a public dietitian, you need to constantly provide dietary guidance and intervention for the audience, constantly make recipes, constantly analyze different people's physical conditions, summarize this person's nutritional status according to different performances, and then make intervention plans ... Sometimes you must provide some appreciation services in several positions and become a psychological counselor, chef and well-dressed person ... After comprehensive calculation, the ability requirement is two and a half stars.

Fatigue Samsung

Under normal circumstances, nutritionists basically don't need to come and go in the rain, and there will be no serious staying up all night, so the degree of fatigue will not be too high.

But not all nutritionists do. As far as public dietitians are concerned, some of them can become community dietitians or work in shifts, and quite a few dietitians are engaged in other jobs, such as:

Sales of health products. Many people who apply for public dietitians are trying to better engage in the sales or shopping guide of some health products after obtaining the certificate. On the one hand, they can better understand the functions of products in order to introduce them. On the other hand, it is easier to establish professionalism and make customers feel trust. But this is tiring, especially when you are stationed in a store or supermarket, you may face standing for a long time and have certain requirements for physical strength.

Fitness instructor. Some people who love sports will also get nutritionist certificates. Some people just want to arrange their own training reasonably, while others are helping to be fitness instructors. Most fitness instructors in China also work hard, and sometimes their schedules are irregular, and their working hours may often exceed 14 hours.

Others are engaged in catering software, WeChat business and enterprise training. After all, with people's attention to health, the way out for public nutritionists is becoming more and more diversified.

Mental stress Samsung

The work of public dietitians is repetitive, so we must endure loneliness to see prosperity, otherwise it is a maddening thing to make recipes every day. Seemingly the same recipe menu, in fact, each one needs to be slightly adjusted, so that it is easy for people to say, "Did I repeat this?" The illusion of

Three stars of earning power

Write it in the first sentence! Although there are only three stars now, they have great potential! Public nutritionists used to want to make a lot of money from this industry, so they basically forgot. Even now, the monthly income level of public nutritionists in China is basically around 3~7k, which is not particularly high. If you have solid skills and rich experience, you can take the road of high salary.

However, with the increasing awareness of people's health, there will be more and more "Qian Jing" in the future nutrition industry. For example, through the way of self-media, focusing on spreading high-quality and reliable health and nutrition knowledge and helping more people get correct intervention, this is a very reliable cash channel; Doing professional corporate health training, that is, giving lectures, of course, the income is also considerable.

Therefore, back to the beginning, this industry has great potential in the future.

The prospect of public dietitians is worrying! Didn't you say that there is great potential, and here it is worrying? Don't tease)

As mentioned above, dietitians are divided into two categories, one is public dietitians, and the other is clinical dietitians. From 2005 to 20 15, the public dietitian certification happened to be 10. However, since 20 15, Shanghai Jiaotong University has conducted the pilot examination for registered dietitians in China for the first time. Judging from the current pilot situation, the only people who can take the exam are medical college students this year, and those who have graduated and entered the work or have no medical school background cannot take the certification exam. In other words, the public dietitian certification examination is restricted.

Moreover, until now, there is no sound about where the "public dietitian" will go, so I am not afraid to speculate with the worst result that the title of public dietitian may disappear in the long river of history, and the future dietitian will be replaced by a registered dietitian with stricter censorship. However, it may be a good thing to correct the unbalanced dietitian situation in the past.

As a nutritionist, you can weigh food by eye or by hand, and the error per100g is less than 2g. But it is true that family members don't like going to the supermarket together, and friends don't like eating together.

In the supermarket—

"Alas, the protein content of this milk is too low. “

"This thing is a black-hearted business, and the ingredients list is in the wrong order."

"How could you? Look at the NRV of sodium is 63%. "

"How did this nutrition label come from ... alas, alas, wife, I was wrong. I shut up, don't choke! "

Looking back, my mind was full of ingredient lists and nutrition labels. Do you blame me? ! )

In the restaurant—

"Order whatever you want. It's my treat today."

"Why did you order potatoes and sweet potatoes? There are too many kinds of cereal potatoes. "

"Hey, this vegetable oil is particularly high, or the sodium in pickled products is particularly high. Be careful of high blood pressure. "

"How do you order so many dishes but not many vegetables? Give me the menu and I'll have some. "

"Don't go ... I haven't finished ordering."

Related book recommendation

Dietary guide for China residents (please refer to "Reciting 300 Tang Poems" for a red envelope book in the field of nutrition, even if you can't write it).

physiology

Food raw material science

Body manual

China Food Composition Table

China Encyclopedia of Nutrition Science (finale, boring but good)