WHAT DO
DIETITIANS DO
Dietetics is one of the world's fastest growing professions with a key role to play in modern medicine. In both the public and private healthcare sectors, dietitians serve in a wide variety of nutrition fields.
Your first thought on what dietitians do might be weight loss, and you would be right, but that is not all. Obesity is only one of a great many nutrition-related conditions that dietitians can treat. Nutrition is one of the cornerstones of good health and being nutrition experts allows dietitians (who are qualified healthcare professionals) to work in many different fields to assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutritional problems using evidence-based recommendations.

PRIVATE PRACTISING
DIETITIANS

FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT DIETITIANS

CLINICAL
DIETITIANS

COMMUNITY
DIETITIANS

CONSULTING
DIETITIANS

RESEARCH/ACADEMIC
DIETITIANS
Watch this video to see how registered dietitians serve
in a wide variety of nutrition fields in South Africa.
View this brochure
to find out more about ADSA
and what a dietitian can do for you.
Become an ADSA member and receive unlimited access to PEN (Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition) and many more resources.