Main contents of management measures for nutrition improvement work

Article 1 These Measures are formulated to promote the improvement of nutrition and improve the nutritional quality and health level of residents.

Article 2 The term "nutritional improvement" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the prevention and control activities of nutritional deficiency, overnutrition and nutrition-related diseases carried out to improve the nutritional status of residents.

Article 3 Nutrition improvement should focus on balanced diet, reasonable nutrition and moderate exercise, and implement the principles of scientific propaganda, professional guidance, individual voluntariness and social participation.

Article 4 The health administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall bring nutrition improvement into the category of public health, adopt comprehensive measures, popularize nutrition knowledge, advocate nutrition concepts and improve nutrition status.

Article 5 The Ministry of Health shall, according to the public health problems, the nutritional status of the population and the level of economic and social development, formulate the national nutrition improvement work plan, nutrition standards and guidelines, and regularly publish reports on the nutritional status of China residents.

Article 6 The health administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall, according to the national nutrition improvement work plan and in combination with the actual situation of the administrative region, formulate relevant nutrition improvement work plans and organize their implementation.

Article 7 The Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention is responsible for the technical guidance of the national nutrition improvement work.

Local disease prevention and control institutions at all levels shall set up departments responsible for nutrition work, rationally allocate nutrition professional and technical personnel, and be responsible for technical guidance on nutrition improvement within their respective administrative areas.

Hospitals should strengthen clinical nutrition work and establish clinical nutrition departments if conditions permit. Article 8 The state establishes a nutrition monitoring system to monitor the dietary status of residents, the effect of nutrition improvement and nutrition-related diseases.

The Ministry of Health formulates and implements the national nutrition monitoring plan. The health administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize the formulation and implementation of nutrition monitoring programs according to the national nutrition monitoring plan and the specific conditions of their respective administrative regions.

Article 9 Nutrition monitoring shall include the following contents:

(1) Changes of food intake and dietary structure in different populations;

(2) Nutritional status of macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients;

(3) protein-energy malnutrition, anemia, calcium deficiency, vitamin A deficiency, etc.;

(4) Overweight, obesity and nutrition-related diseases;

(5) Other contents that need to be monitored.

Tenth disease prevention and control institutions at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the nutrition monitoring plan and scheme, carry out nutrition monitoring, collect, analyze and report nutrition monitoring information, and carry out relevant epidemiological investigation, on-site sampling, laboratory testing and evaluation.

Eleventh national and provincial disease prevention and control institutions are responsible for guiding and training disease prevention and control institutions and their staff to carry out nutrition monitoring.

Twelfth maternal and child health care institutions, community health service institutions, township hospitals and other medical and health institutions shall participate in the nutrition monitoring work in accordance with the nutrition monitoring plan and program, and provide corresponding technical support.

Thirteenth disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions shall promptly report to the health administrative department of the local people's government the nutritional problems found by the population.

Article 14 The administrative department of health shall organize experts in medicine, food and nutrition to analyze, evaluate and study the nutritional problems existing in the population, and put forward corresponding opinions and suggestions to the society according to the specific situation.

The administrative department of health shall report to the people's government at the corresponding level in a timely manner on the nutritional problems that require government intervention. Article 15 The administrative department of health shall regularly organize various forms of nutrition publicity and education, popularize dietary guidelines for China residents, help residents form eating habits and healthy lifestyles that meet nutritional requirements, and improve their ability to improve dietary nutrition.

Professional departments and personnel engaged in nutrition work in disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, universities, scientific research institutes, nutrition societies and other units shall provide scientific, practical and easy-to-understand nutrition and health knowledge.

Sixteenth disease prevention and control institutions at all levels shall assist schools, enterprises and institutions to carry out nutrition publicity and education.

Seventeenth medical institutions should carry out nutrition knowledge publicity and consultation activities in combination with diagnosis and treatment work to answer patients' questions.

Eighteenth maternal and child health care institutions, maternity hospitals and children's hospitals should carry out targeted nutrition knowledge publicity and education for pregnant women and children.

Nineteenth encourage the news, publishing, culture, radio, film, television and other media to carry out nutrition publicity and education.

Nutrition publicity and education should be scientific and accurate, and accept the guidance of nutrition professional departments.

It is strictly prohibited to mislead and deceive the public with false and untrue nutritional information.

Twentieth catering service units and collective catering units shall, in combination with their own business conditions, strengthen the on-the-job nutrition business training for catering staff, and conduct regular inspections and assessments. Twenty-first disease prevention and control institutions at all levels shall, according to the main nutritional problems found in nutritional monitoring, determine the focus of nutritional guidance, and report it to the health administrative department at the same level for approval before implementation.

Twenty-second nutrition guidance should be oriented to the public, aiming at preventing nutrition-related diseases, focusing on people with nutritional deficiency and overnutrition.

Twenty-third nutrition guidance should include the following contents:

(1) Nutrition knowledge consultation;

(2) nutritional status assessment;

(3) Suggestions on dietary collocation and intake;

(4) Suggestions on strengthening the selection of food and nutrient supplements;

(five) the use of food nutrition labels;

(6) Nutrition and health courses in society and media;

(seven) other nutrition guidance services.

Twenty-fourth disease prevention and control institutions can carry out the pilot work of nutrition improvement demonstration units.

To carry out the pilot work of nutrition improvement demonstration units, it is necessary to have overall planning arrangements, specific objectives and requirements, corresponding measures and financial guarantee.

Twenty-fifth nutrition improvement demonstration unit pilot work, can be a comprehensive nutrition improvement, can also be a single nutrition improvement. Twenty-sixth health administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the problems found in nutrition monitoring, formulate nutrition intervention plans and report them to the people's governments at the same level for approval before implementation.

Nutrition intervention should proceed from reality, combined with funds, local resources, food supply and other conditions, adjust measures to local conditions, step by step.

Twenty-seventh disease prevention and control institutions should strengthen the guidance of primary and secondary school students' canteens and student nutrition catering units.

Students' canteens and students' nutrition catering units in primary and secondary schools should make reasonable catering, guide students to develop correct eating habits and improve the growth, development and nutritional status of primary and secondary school students. Encourage medical institutions, institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutes, nutrition societies and other units to assist or participate in school nutrition propaganda.

Twenty-eighth medical institutions should strengthen clinical nutrition work, improve patients' diet and nutrition, and play the role of nutritional intervention in promoting patients' adjuvant treatment and rehabilitation.

Article 29 The administrative department of health shall incorporate nutrition intervention into the emergency plan for natural disasters such as earthquake, flood and drought and public health emergencies, provide professional and technical guidance for the supply and storage of nutritious food, and prevent and reduce the occurrence of acute malnutrition.

Thirtieth nutrition intervention for residents in disaster areas should give priority to children, pregnant women and the elderly.

Combined with clinical needs, the patients after treatment were given nutritional intervention.

Thirty-first encourage social forces to subsidize primary and secondary schools in poor areas to improve the nutritional status of students. Thirty-second health administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall commend and reward units and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to nutrition improvement.

Thirty-third China Nutrition Society, when assisting the health administrative department to carry out nutrition improvement work, may award medals or certificates to advanced units in nutrition improvement work. Article 34 The meanings of the following terms in these Measures:

Nutritional deficiency: also known as "nutritional deficiency", refers to the phenomenon that the energy and nutrients obtained from food can not meet the needs of the body, thus affecting growth, development or physiological function. Nutritional deficiency can be found through dietary survey, physical measurement and detection of related physiological and biochemical indexes.

Overnutrition: Also known as "overnutrition". Refers to the phenomenon that the body gets more energy and nutrients from food than the body needs, leading to overweight and obesity. Overnutrition can be found through dietary survey, physical measurement and related physiological and biochemical indicators.

Macronutrients: Three essential nutrients for energy production, namely protein, fat and carbohydrate, are the most abundant in the diet. The human body needs dozens to hundreds of grams every day.

Micronutrients: Other essential nutrients besides macronutrients, including minerals and vitamins. The daily requirement of these nutrients is very small, usually in milligrams or micrograms.

Protein-energy malnutrition: A nutritional deficiency disease that occurs because the intake of protein and energy cannot meet the needs of the body. More common in famine years or food shortage areas, especially children. The main manifestations are growth retardation, underweight, severe emaciation or edema.

Overweight and obesity: those who weigh more than the "healthy weight" standard are overweight; Being seriously overweight and reaching the standard of obesity is obesity. Adults generally take the body mass index (BMI) as the standard, and the BMI ≥24 kg/m2 is overweight; Obesity is defined as body mass index ≥28 kg/m2. Overweight and obesity are both unhealthy manifestations.

Article 35 The health administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate detailed implementation rules according to these Measures.

Article 36 These Measures shall come into force as of September 1 day, 2065.