Friday, 31 July 2020

NT24 News : CAREER GUIDE IN HOME SCIENCE......

CAREER GUIDE IN HOME SCIENCE: “FINDING WAY TO NUTRITION”
National Tele24 News
Vinay Kumar Sharma
Chandigarh .
About Home Science, Home Science is a multidisciplinary field of knowledge. Home Scientists in this dynamic field are renovating innovation in all the extraordinary fields of Home Science i.e. Food and Nutrition, Human Development and Family Relations, Apparel, and Textile Designing, Interior Designing and Resource Management and a Composite stream combining all these fields of education. The course also includes basic knowledge of Extension Education, Economics and Entrepreneurship Development, Zoology, Botany, Physics and Chemistry. Home Scientists utilize their skills to re-invent innovation by transforming the ideas, attitudes, interests, and values of an individual. They help promote the moral, familial, and spiritual aspects of family living. Finding Way to Nutrition: It is rightly said, “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” Food and nutrition as a subject emphasizes ideas, interdisciplinary mindset, collaborative thinking and the commitment to apply the knowledge to resolve various social dilemmas related to Food and Nutrition security. Since India has long been facing a double burden of malnutrition problem i.e. both undernutrition and over nutrition, the specialists in this stream play a significant role in designing different nutritional interventions to address malnutrition issues on a large scale. Not only this, the health, physiological characteristics, nutritional requirements, and nutritional care of people belonging to various life stages and varied age groups are also being taken care of. It is one of the most applied and interdisciplinary subjects in our present educational system. Moreover, in the light of changing time, trends, and rationalization, there is increased awareness and rising concern about health and eating habits; thus the field of nutrition and dietetics is gaining a lot of importance day by day. With each minute, counting on another form of a disease and increasing cases of diseased due to faulty eating habits, the role of nutritionists has increased many folds.
Scope of Food and Nutrition under Public Health
 Government Sector (Health, Social Welfare Department, Food and Nutrition
Board, Sports Authority of India etc.)
 Consultants and technical officials from the Food and Nutrition background to
be appointed at both National and State level to implement Government
Program successfully
 Sports Nutritionists at Government or Autonomous sports organizations
 Developmental NGOs- scope under National and International development
sector organizations like UNICEF
 Hospital/ Healthcare field
 Food Service, Institutional catering
 Food and Neutraceutical Industries/ Food Product companies
 Research and Development
 Pharmaceutical companies
 Media and Publishing houses (for producing books, articles, promotions,
television programs etc.) on optimum dietary practices
 Private practice in this field
Anupreet Kaur Sobti, Founder, DietauraStudent, pursuing B.Sc. (Dietetics)-3rd Yr, Government Home Science College, Chandigarh. 7814545800, 8837505247

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