Publisher's Synopsis
This essay sheds light on how to become a registered dietitian nutritionist, elucidates how to find clients as a nutritionist, and delineates how to be highly successful as a nutritionist. Furthermore, deadly disease causing foods that you should always forbear eating are demystified in this essay. Moreover, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to severe chronic diseases by embracing a heart healthy, brain healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. While becoming a nutritionist may seem to be a cumbersome undertaking, it is more viable than ever before. A nutritionist is often a registered dietitian or registered registered dietitian nutritionist who has undergone years of dietetic education and "supervised training through an internship" (Fucci, n.d.) in order to become a competent nutritionist. In order to become an adept nutritionist, you must fulfill a multitude of requirements that can vary by state. There are typically five major requirements that have to be satisfied to become a nutritionist. Becoming a nutritionist entails "earning a bachelor's degree in clinical nutrition, food service systems management, dietetics, foods and nutrition, or a related field, passing a competency exam, completing a a Dietetic Internship Program, earning the RD or RDN credential, and obtaining a state license or other applicable licenses" ("How to become," 2017). All registered dietitians are deemed nutritionists even though not all nutritionists have attained the registered dietitian credential. In order to be perceived by prospective clients as a expert nutritionist, you can attain the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) credential. Becoming a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist is far more arduous than simply becoming just a nutritionist who has not earned the nationally recognized RDN credential. Having the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist will also help you to substantially grow your private nutrition practice if you also have marketing shrewdness since clients prefer to consult highly credentialed and knowledgeable nutritionists for dietetic advise instead of depending on less credentialed and knowledgeable nutritionist to provide them with dietetic advise. If you are keen on becoming an expert nutritionist, then it would behoove you to earnestly strive to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Becoming a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist will require you to complete a copious amount of university courses in order to obtain a bachelor's degree. "You can earn a bachelor's degree in clinical nutrition, food service systems management, dietetics, foods and nutrition, or a related field" ("How to become," 2017) and should do everything in your purview to truncate the duration to earn an undergraduate degree in clinical nutrition so that it is whittled down to a 3 years undertaking. Prospective clinical nutrition students should consider taking DSST and CLEP exams. These examinations are multiple choice and can be completed in less than a couple hours per exam. The DSST and CLEP exams cover a host of subject areas and there are no ramifications against your GPA if you were to not pass any of these examinations. The DSST and CLEP exams costs roughly $85 to take per exam (Sienkiewicz, 2019) which is less than 1/10th of the tuition cost of taking a college course. These examinations can allow you to attain 3 college credits per exam passed. You can also keep retaking these DSST and CLEP exams until you pass them. "There are 33 CLEP exams and 37 DSST exams available for students" (Sienkiewicz, 2019). By passing these exams, students can earn college credits without taking the various college course. These CLEP and DSST exams cover a broad range of subject areas, such as business, science, history, technology, economics, literature, mathematics, and humanities.
