Due to the increasing awareness about good health and a healthy body, the demand for nutritionists has increased rapidly. The job of a nutritionist is to understand the needs of people’s body and give them information about the right diet and dosage. Food is also helpful in recovering from any disease. In such a situation, the nutritionist i.e. dietician also gives advice to the patient as to what he should and should not eat to recover as soon as possible. If you want to keep yourself healthy as well as tell others how to be healthy, then you can find new career opportunities as a nutritionist and dietitians.
👉Skills required :-
🔸To make a career as a nutritionist or dietician, you must have passed 12th with home science or science stream, after 12th you can do B.Sc in food science and processing.
🔸One can do BSc Honors in Microbiology, Nutrition, Nutrition and Food Science and Nutrition and Dietetics.
🔸Apart from this, Diploma in Dietetics and Nutrition and Diploma in Food Science and Public Health Nutrition can also be done. After completing graduation, you can do MSc in these subjects. You can also do research in this field for higher education.
👉 Skills that will accelerate your career :-
🔸A nutritionist and dietician should have knowledge of the right proportion of nutrition in different food items, the ingredients used in different food items and their effect on the body.
🔸You should have the curiosity to read and research about the trends related to food.
🔸Apart from this, your communication skills should also be good to communicate with different types of people.
👉 Opportunities to move forward are here :-
🔸With the increasing awareness of fitness, nutritionists and dieticians are now being given a lot of attention. Due to this a lot of possibilities are developing for these professionals both in government and non-government sectors.
🔸As a nutritionist and dietician, you can find jobs in hospitals and health centres, government health departments, schools, sports clubs, NGOs and gyms etc.
🔸After a few years of experience, you can also open your own practice center.
🔸Nowadays, the services of Nutrition and Dietetics experts are also being taken in MNC and corporate offices, so that the health of the employees is better and they perform better.
🔸Apart from this, gaining some popularity as a nutritionist one can also become a personal nutritionist of a celebrity and sports person.
👉 Institutes you can approach :-
You can approach the following institutes to do BA, BSc, PG Diploma or Master courses related to Nutrition and Food:-
Lady Irwin College, New Delhi.
Institute of Home Economics, New Delhi.
🔸SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
Women’s Christian College, Chennai.
🔸All India Institute of Sanitation and Public Health, NirmalaNiketan, Mumbai.