Re: Some questions (somewhat OT) Nutritionist/Dietician

February 28, 2001

>From: slowens@...

> > career in some area of nutrition or fitness.

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>I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this! I'm slowly catching

>up on the emails that I missed...LOL! I don't really know what the

>difference is between a nutritionist and dietician (Jen, are you out

>there? LOL),

By the way has anyone heard from Jen? I'm kind of worried about her. Been

thinking about her a lot, but haven't seen any posts from her.

It's been 13-14 years since I graduated from college but from what I recall

the difference between a nutritionist and a dietician is schooling and

passing a state (?) exam. I have a 4 year degree from UC in Community

Nutrition and could call myself nutritionist, i.e., when I worked at Nutri

Life I was a nutritionist. I don't know what it technically requires to call

yourself a nutritionist, which is kind of scary. When I applied at

Craig, you did not have to have a degree in nutrition, but you were still

called a " nutritionist " . To be a registered dietician, you must have a 4

year degree and then either get a masters in dietician or go through an

accredited dietician program, which I think is an additional 1-2 years of

schooling. And THEN you must also pass an exam. I think just passed

this exam.

I will tell you this though. Although I learned a tremendous amount of

information in college, a lot of it was not really applicable to " every day

living " . Most of what I've learned as far as every day living has come from

my own research and trying to keep apprised of new information, studies,

etc. My boyfriend has as much, if not more, knowledge about " useful

nutrition " than I do and does not have a degree...he has spent years

studying and reading bodybuilding magazines, articles, books, etc.

Colleen, who finally checked the airlines and actually found flights

roundtrip for $114.00...so her dream my really become reality in being able

to meet " the man " !

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