Health Care - Nutrition
Mentor: Ms. Arlene Frances Wu (Health Concept HK Ltd)
Ruby Yam and Erin Hui
On 1-3 July, we had our job shadowing at Health Concept HK Limited. We shadowed nutritionist Ms Wu and her colleagues during our time there, this remarkable experience has given us insights into the career of being a nutritionist. Surprisingly, the job of a nutritionist is not only about giving health advice to patients or monitoring their diets, but it also includes giving talks related to health and nutrition. We are very lucky to have the opportunity to be able to listen to one of the talks that Ms Wu was invited to as a speaker for the retired elderly, which was related to preventing the reduction of muscle mass and the rainbow diet. It was a very rare opportunity for us and we learnt a lot from her speech.
Besides going to the talk, we also did some daily work in the company which included counting the number of condiments from LeeKumKee that will be used for voluntary service and we learnt how to organize things in a more efficient manner. And we were also assigned the task to design a vegan recipe as well as writing a plan for a heart health scheme. For the recipes, we cooperated to make two dishes which are BBQ sauce tofu as a main dish and vegan chocolate cheesecake for dessert.
After these three days of job shadowing, our group has gained inspiration for our future career and learnt a lot about food and nutrition.
