3 MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DIETITIANS & NUTRITIONISTS

Your videos are so informative. Thanks for sharing✌🏿

Thank you love. After my daughter is born I'm going to finish school at my community college and transferring to UNLV because their dietitian program is great.

Thank you for this video Kim. It was much needed !

Thank you so much for this video! I have one quick question (not sure if you discussed this in a video), is it hard to find a job in the dietetics field?? (obviously after passing all courses and tests)

From a Canadian perspective, the differences are essentially the same as the ones you mentioned!

What career opportunities are there for nutritionists without the RD title?

Very informative, I wish more people knew the difference!

very nice video!! I love your hair!!

Hi Ma'am Kim! I am Brandon from the Philippines. I just want to share the difference here. In my country, both titles are protected since once we pass the board examination, we are called Registered Nutritionist-Dietitians. So basically here, when you are referring to a Nutritionist, you are most prolly referring to a Dietitian (Though some are now referring to themselves as Nutritionist even without a license, citing the American legal basis).

Dietetics here in the PH was patterned to the US since it was founded after the American colonization but things changed. Here, the internship is already included in your 4 year BS ND curriculum (its a semester long with a total of 600 hours.) After finishing the degree, you are now eligible to take the exam. How I wish things would revert back to what was the curriculum before, just like in the US. But now I heard that the our Board is now on the process of revising it again. In the plan, RND's would be required to undergo residency in various specialties such as Pediatric Nutrition, Diabates Nutrition, Renal, Metabolic Disorders and etc. So these specialties would be regulated through an exam and these would now be required if you're going to work as a dietitian in a specialized hospital or clinic.

I live in a small country in europe, and we don't have nutrition studies and even dietition study programme will be started the next year, so thank you for making these informative videos, bc they REALLY help :)

I'll be going to a dietician tommorrow. I found out last week that I was diabetic and I need to learn to learn how to eat all over again. I am thinking about going back to a trade school for a culinary nutritional assistant. I want to learn how to eat right and start a some type of meal prepping business. Great video. I appreciate the info.

Hi!!! Congrats for you video! I'm from Brazil and here the thermilogy is different...

Yes!!!!! People need to get it right ✅

Hello! I'll study for begin a Foundation Year and after I can choose two main courses: "Dietetics and Human Nutrition" and "Nutrition and Health". If I want to work in my carrer with obese people,sportive and diabetics ,which course do you think that I must to choose?

Extremely informative! I love the way you talk and explain yourself! Thanks for being so clear and concise

Thanks Queen!

I really appreciate your specificity in explaining the differences. Thank you very much.

hi.. Can RD help me to resolve my imbalance hormones?, Im having hard time loosing weight and gaining muscle 😭 RD are not so common here in Philippines.

Yes! Absolutely. I started out in dietetics and switched to Human Nutrition and Food Science because I wanted to focus on the research and holistic nutrition vs government based nutrition practices. I am very clear and up front with clients, educating them about the difference between RD and nutritionist and then share my brief resume, where I focused my research, etc. I believe it's critical to respect the RD and what it stands for. So wish more RDs had the research background and had required training in holistic nutrition and healing of the body, disease reversal through nutrition, etc.

Thank you!

I’m sorry but legal wise you might be right but knowledge wise I’m a master online nutritionist and know a lot more then dietitians and has /had to help many people after having had visited a dietitian