Career Opportunities as a Nutritionist
Clinical Nutritionist:
Clinical Nutrition is one of the major disciplines of Nutrition and Dietetics. The focus of the field is to research and acquire more and more scientific knowledge to treat infectious and non-communicable disease by therapeutic diets and innovations. The scope of this field is as follows:
A graduate in B.Sc. Nutrition and Dietetics can work as a dietician in hospitals and Nutritionists in health clinics, health centers, and MNCs.
Opportunity to be a registered dietician (RD).
Graudates can work as a project assistant, project associate, chief nutritionist in NGO’s and private organizations.
Bariatric surgery Nutritionist.
Be an entrepreneur and open their nutrition clinic or nutrition-based café or restaurants, as people are getting more aware about healthy eating habits.
Public Health Nutritionist:
Public Health Nutrition is another field of nutrition that focuses on the public health problem regarding food and nutrition like Anaemia, Vitamin A, Diabetes, Iodine deficiency etc. they deal directly with masses. The scope of this field is as follows:
Graduates can work as a project assistant, project associate at an organization like PHFI, WHO, UNICEF, health organizations.
Work as a chief nutritionist in NGO or private organizations.
Work as a Regulatory affairs specialist
Nutrition Journalism is another field to explore
Public health policymaker
Sustainable food nutritionist
Sports Nutritionist:
Sports nutrition deals with specific nutrition requirements and guidelines of sports players depending on the category of sports. The scope of this field is as follows:
Nutritionist at sports training, gyms and fitness center
Digital sports coach for average gym-goer
Fitness streaming programmer
Certified Supplements and granular nutritionist
Nutritionist at Sports Authority of India
Food Science and Technology
This is another field of nutrition. The scope of the field is as follows:
Food Scientist – Work in R&D centres of Industry
Food Auditor/Food Quality Controller
Food analyst/Food sensory evaluator
Research associatewith Food Industry
Consultant in FSSAI
Technical Labelling Analyst
