dietetics

The treatment of guys in dietetics is just as strange as the treatment of girls in programming.

Dietitians are not doctors, but the academy of nutrition and dietetics wants you to think they are.

The first Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian was co-founder of the American Dietetics Association which ultimately advocated a vegetarian diet.

The academy of nutrition and dietetics has worked very hard to make it so that only dietitians can provide nutrition advice.

It's like when the Academy of nutrition and dietetics was sponsored by Pepsi and Mars.

It’s also a reason the application of dietetics can vary so much.

In a 2009 review, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association), the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals in the U.

My wife is in Dietetics (what dietitians do, not what Tom Cruise does), and they've got the opposite gender distribution from what the Ruby community does.

To become a registered dietician requires at least a Master's degree in dietetics or nutrition or a related field, and at least 1000 hours of supervised internships.

There are female dominated fields in which men are rare (nursing and dietetics to name two) and encounter all sort of social awkwardness due to being the minority.

They push dietetics licensure preventing people from getting nutrition information from a provider of their choice, because the organization depends on dietitians paying yearly for the Registered Dietitian credential.

It's like with dietetics and cancer scares.

And re "nutritionally inferior", every dietetics and nutrition peak body on the planet agrees that a fully vegan diet is suitable for all people throughout all stages of life.

The oft cited thing keeping men out of nursing and dietetics are cultural things like the work not being "manly" enough Not adding anything other than a data point here.

The oft cited thing keeping men out of nursing and dietetics are cultural things like the work not being "manly" enough, as opposed to facing sexual harassment and pejorative or demeaning behavior.

It's not that people are dumb, but rather that words have connotations, and plenty of people, who don't happen to be nerds of fields adjacent to chemistry or dietetics, will assume that "soy milk" is like normal milk because it's called "soy milk ".

Dietetics/Nutrition and Nursing are dramatic cases with the opposite gender distribution (My wife happens to be in Dietetics).

Dietetics suffers from the same issue that mental health does: there's an underlying stigma that causes people to inflict a moral judgement on the ill; fat people - or so the old line of thinking goes - are immoral.