The emergence of dietitian profession is to meet the needs of social health. Nutritionist is a comprehensive profession, which combines the characteristics of chefs, health professionals, medical practitioners, practitioners of Chinese medicine, psychologists, marketers and administrators. They are not only experts in food, but also experts in the fields of nutrition detection, nutrition fortification and nutrition evaluation.
Help people become healthy. The professional requirement of dietitians is to focus on health professional services. National nutrition and health status is an important indicator reflecting the economic and social development, health care level and population quality of a country or region. Good nutrition and health are the foundation and goal of social and economic development.
With the sustained and rapid development of China's national economy, the dietary nutritional status of urban and rural residents in China has improved significantly since 2003, but at the same time, China is also facing the dual challenges of nutritional deficiency and unbalanced nutritional structure. Hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease and other diseases closely related to dietary nutrition are increasingly threatening people's health.
Therefore, it is a very urgent task to vigorously carry out nutrition work and guide Chinese residents to participate in and improve nutritious diet in combination with the specific situation of food resources in China. The work of a dietitian is very important. They scientifically and reasonably distribute people's diet and promote people's health.
Reduce the occurrence of various chronic diseases, and improve the nutritional awareness of the whole people by popularizing nutritional knowledge to the whole society, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing the physical fitness of the whole people.