How Do I Become a Nutrition Educator?

The appearance of dietitian (English: dietitian) was born to meet the needs of social health. The profession of nutritionist combines the characteristics of professions such as chef, hygienist, medical service, Chinese medicine, psychologist, marketer, administrator and so on. It is a relatively comprehensive profession. Not only are they experts in food, they are also experts in the fields of nutrition testing, nutrition fortification, and nutrition assessment, helping people get health. The professional requirement of a nutritionist is to focus on serving the health professionally.

National nutrition and health status are important indicators reflecting the economic and social development, health care level, and population quality of a country or region. Good nutrition and health are both the foundation and the goal of socio-economic development.

With the continuous and rapid development of China's national economy, since 2003, the diet and nutritional status of urban and rural residents have significantly improved, but at the same time, China is also facing the dual challenge of nutritional deficiencies and imbalanced nutritional structures. Hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease and other diseases that are closely related to dietary nutrition are increasingly threatening people's health. Therefore, in light of the specific situation of China's food resources, vigorously carrying out nutrition work to guide our residents to participate in and improve nutrition and dietary matching is a problem we face. Very urgent task.

The work of a nutritionist is very important. They (they) scientifically and rationally adjust the diet of the general public and promote people's physical health, reduce the occurrence of various chronic diseases, and by comprehensively spreading nutrition knowledge to the whole society, raising the nutrition awareness of the entire population, in order to achieve the purpose of enhancing the physical fitness of the entire population .

In the United States, the treatment of inpatients requires the participation of a nutritionist. In Japan, there is one nutritionist for every 300 people, which is 2.4 times the number of clinicians. According to the ratio of Japanese dietitians to the total population of the country, that is, one dietitian is provided for every 300 people, it is estimated that China lacks 4 million dietitians. At present, there are less than 4,000 nutritionists in China. There is no special nutrition specialty in colleges and universities, and the training of professionals related to this profession cannot meet the needs of society at all. Compared with developed countries, China's nutrition professionals are scarce.

For this reason, the new profession of nutritionist has developed and matured in response to the needs of society. The state has formally established this profession to regulate the professional behavior of this profession, improve the professional ability of practitioners, and build a specialized nutrition profession for our country. The talent team will play an active role.

Carrying out the corresponding public nutrition improvement work is a systematic project to improve the quality of national health and the overall national strength of the country. The nutrition industry closely related to nutrition improvement is also a rising industry with vitality and development potential. With the development of the nutrition industry as the premise, the main contents of nutrition improvement work are: nutrition improvement work for three key groups: children, women, infants and toddlers, and the elderly; nutrition poverty alleviation and nutrition poverty alleviation work for people in poverty-stricken areas and people with minimum living security; Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and more in cities and economically developed areas "

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Nutrition is receiving more and more attention from more and more countries, and nutrition work has become a new and hot profession. As dietitians, experts in the prevention of nutritional deficiencies and nutritional treatment of diseases, they carry out the development of dietary nutrition guidelines, design and production of treatment and health care recipes, and food development at homes, hospitals, schools, health centers, and food companies. And other work, played a very important role in promoting the health of the population and the early recovery of disease. ^[3]

Employment direction: mainly engaged in science popularization in nutrition. To enter the hospital

Training Objectives: To cultivate the ability to evaluate, manage, and guide human nutrition and dietary nutrition; carry out dietary nutrition guidance to prevent common and nutrition-related chronic diseases; have the ability to investigate and analyze dietary nutritional status, and design and evaluate nutritional food development Applied higher professional and technical personnel.

Main courses: Basics of Chinese Medicine, Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Prescriptions, Pharmacology, Basic Nutrition, Western Medicine Internal Medicine, Western Medicine Surgery, Food Microbiology, Food Toxicology, Food Hygiene, Culinary Basics, Clinical nutrition, Chinese medicine diet, health regulations and supervision.

Employment direction: Competent in the evaluation, management and guidance of diet and nutrition in medical and health units at all levels, food hygiene supervision agencies at all levels, and various canteens, food processing and distribution companies, schools, kindergartens, public canteens of enterprises and institutions, As well as nutritional food teaching, scientific research, food hygiene supervision and testing, nutrition consulting and other work.

Development Trend: Nutrition is an important medical marginal science. The internal reasons and external conditions for the development of nutrition have promising prospects.

The Organizing Committee of the Fifth Chinese Dietitian Annual Meeting

I. Advisors: Yin Dakui, Wang Longde, Zhang Fenglou, Zhou Guotai, etc.

Honorary Chairman: Yu Xiaodong, Liu Keling, Chen Jun, Wang Chunhui, Cheng Yiyong, etc.

3. Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Sun Shuxia

4. Executive Chairman: Wei Yue

V. Rotating Chairman: Wang Xufeng

6. Vice Chairman: Cheng Jie, Jiang Jing, Yao Qian, Ning Li, Guan Feng, Sun Guangfu, Hu Peng

7. Secretary General: Wei Jun

Executive Deputy Secretary-General: Chen Zhizheng Xiong Miao Yang Lili Liu Shangwei Gu Zhongyi

Nine, Deputy Secretary-General: Sun Shirui Liu Zhonghua Zuo Longyan Liu Shuzhen Huang Xuefang Shao Hongfang Wang Liang Liu Ying Cao Jinfang Li Zhenjiang Jiao Chao Yu Xiaoguang Wang Hailing Feng Haibo Xu Jingfan Chang Wen Cui Juanzi

10. Members (Leaders of various local nutrition associations, heads of training institutions and outstanding nutritionists):

Yu Renwen Zheng Yulong Peng Lijun Yu Xian Chen Xiaofang Zhao Hongjun Wang Kunding Rui Xu Jun Xiao Hongxing Gu Chuanling Zhang Yucan Zhang Junfeng Chen Junxian Wan Luoman Cao Bing Huang Zhijun Yang Jinhua Wu Huagui Wang Leijun Lu Mei Liu Jingqian Wang Yong Chen Dihong Wang Qingrong ^[4]