What kinds of nutritionists are there?

Divided into the following six categories:

1, clinical dietitian

Mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition work, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. He mainly works in a hospital and is often called a nutritionist. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.

2. Public dietitian

Also known as a public dietitian, his work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition survey, planning of various social activities related to nutrition, and planning of film and television literature related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.

3. Food nutritionist

Mainly working in food enterprises, mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work.

4. Sports dietitian

They are nutritionists, professional athletes or sports enthusiasts who provide nutrition guidance for athletes. Compared with ordinary people, they exercise more and their nutritional needs are quite different from ordinary people. Therefore, the nutrition of this group of people has special requirements and should be carried out by professional sports nutritionists, which is beneficial to their health.

5. 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.

6, medicated diet dietitian

Serve food and pharmaceutical companies, market associations and catering service providers. Dietetic nutritionists assist business leaders to conduct research, put forward professional opinions on management and market, and urge enterprises to produce better medicated health food on the market. 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.

Extended data:

Requirements for obtaining nutritionist qualification certificate:

I. assistant (junior) dietitian

Junior high school education or above is acceptable.

Second, the intermediate dietitian

1, technical secondary school, junior college, undergraduate course, and related majors.

2, high school, technical secondary school, vocational high school, junior college, undergraduate and other graduates, whether the relevant majors can be.

Third, senior nutritionist

1, master degree or above, major in related field.

2. Bachelor degree, more than 2 years working experience in related major.

3. College degree, related major, more than 5 years working experience.

4, secondary school education, published articles at or above the provincial level.

5, engaged in the catering industry to obtain senior titles (above the special level), working time 10 years or more.

6. Those who hold the vocational skill certificate of intermediate dietitian and have worked for more than 2 years can declare.

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