Nutritional consultant vs public health dietitian

Differences between nutritional consultant and public health dietitian duties and responsibilities

Nutritional consultant example responsibilities.

• Manage the in-store dietitian program providing nutrition education, culinary workshops, food demonstrations, and nutritional assessments.
• Specialize in weight loss, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and lactose intolerance
• Provide nutrition assessments, counseling and diabetes education to visually impair population individually and in group setting.
• Ensure compliance to USDA requirements.
• Conduct BMI and weigh-ins for insurance members during health insurance out reach events.
• Help clients with food allergies and auto immune disorders to construct a healing diet.
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Public health dietitian example responsibilities.

• Manage the anemia status of patients by reviewing necessary lab data and initiating or adjusting medication doses.
• Partner with certify diabetes educator on consulting gestational diabetic patients on glucose monitors and diabetic eating guidelines.
• Provide diabetes education to community groups.
• Implement and develop diabetes information newsletters.
• Provide medical nutrition therapy for medically high risk patients.
• Write quarterly project newsletters, create tools need to properly assess for obesity causing behaviors and develop educationmaterials as needed.
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