What is the difference between dietitian and nutritionist?
dietitian | nutritionist |
A person who studies or practices dietetics.
* 2013 , Nutrition for Nursing, Edition 5.0 , Assessment Technologies Institute, page 142:
As nouns the difference between dietitian and nutritionist
is that dietitian is a person who studies or practices dietetics while nutritionist is an expert or specialist in nutrition.dietitian
English
Alternative forms
* dieticianNoun
(en noun)- The dietitian works with the client to develop meal planning that meets the client's needs based on healthy food choices.
Usage notes
* Professionals]] in the field prefer dietitian'' to ''dietician'' and most corpora show the preferred spelling to be significantly more common, but BNC shows them about equally common in the UK. The ''Corpus of Global [[web, Web-based English (GloWbE) shows the preferred spelling about 40% more common.References
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Dietician