Talk:Dietitian

message: In my opinion this article needs a significant rewrite to isolate and make clear the country-specific sections.  For example the sections on "RD" & "DTR" are presumably US-specific only as is the entire section on types of dietitian and other nutrition workers.  Likewise the qualifications of dietitians and the periods of study vary between countries with the profession not even recognised in some areas.  The "professional associations" section makes reference to this and attempts to intruduce some country balance with references to the UK and Australia but this balance needs to be spread across the whole article. Aop27 19:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Country specific & muddled

message: FACTs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietitian (Redirected from Dietetics)
But frWikipedia: (the French word for it) Dietetics = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_diet
I'm a little new one in editing Wikipedia, today I've signed in enWikipedia. And the subject is that I'm interested in dietetics, medicine. The other is to learn about enWikipedia structure/hierarchy etc to see it with a wider look. Thanks&Ciao
PLA y Grande Covián 06:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  terminology 

message: Agree that the field of "dietetics" should not be synomymous with the profession of "dietitian". Moreover, the article seems biased towards the American perspective, and against the term "nutritionist". Revisions have been made with international/scientific references on the profession of dietitian. Hopefully someone will soon create a new article on the field (and add the link here).Guptan99 (talk) 15:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Profession versus field

message: I find the current section "types of dietitians" needs serious revision. It does not really address different types of practitioners in this field, rather they are addressed in the following section on "dietitians in practice". I have added some references here where I could find them. But the "types" section remains unreferenced and unsubstantiated from a worldwide perspective, only focuses on one type of dietitian, and should probably be merged under practicing clinical dietitians. Guptan99 (talk) 11:34, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Types of dietitians

message: I am a registered dietitian. I believe the previous definition was not descriptive enough to explain our profession. KimKirchherr (talk) 20:30, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your help! Usually, unless someone opposes your edits, we have a guideline here called be bold: if you find something lacking, go ahead and fix it. You don't need to inform us on the talk page unless someone disagrees with you, in which case, the talk page here is where you can discuss and reach a consensus. I've taken a look at what you've added, and I tried to make it more objective (by cutting out subjective words like "extensive", or "rigourous", because those are matters of opinion) and cutting down on the repetition (you mentioned places where RDs work around 3 times). Finally, I tried to maintain a distinction between dietitian as a general term, and the actual designation as a Registered Dietitian. Have my changes affected the effectiveness of the definition in your opinion? Brambleclawx 20:46, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition (overall) of dietitian 

message: The majority of RDs work in the treatment and prevention of disease (administering medical nutrition therapy, as part of medical teams), often in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, private practices or other health care facilities.
I find the above misleading and actually false in a lot of ways.
For one hospitals (where majority of Dietitians work) do NOT work in the prevention of disease, more the treatment, such as menu's for specific patient types with diabetes etc. 
As a whole people are confused Dietitians vs Nutritionists, it all may be well said that all Dietitians are Nutritionists but not all Nutritionists are Dietitians, but where they specialize is COMPLETELY different. You only have to ring a university that teaches both which I have and they will tell you flat out that a Nutritionist specializes in PREVENTION AND treatment whilst a Dietitian specializes in treatment of diseases. This is why in Australia a Dietitian for example can claim patients under medicare because it is a TREATMENT that is subsidized by the government where a NUTRITIONIST can only be subsidized by a private health fund for future PREVENTION and treatment. I am actually qualified in both but practice a LOT more in prevention rather than what I learnt in my Dietitian ways to treat already existing conditions as I am a strong believer of prevention is the best cure. Either way I want to just clarify the above is the major difference between Nutritionist and a Dietitian so can you please remove they work in the prevention of disease.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.147.153.94 (talk) 06:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "The science can be traced back to the early work of Professor Carl von Voit, the ‘father of dietetics’ (1831-1908) who characterised the concept of energy homeostasis and protein turnover, which form the basis of dietetics and medical nutrition today. "
Rm'ing this added claim to talk because I am not finding this to be a cut and dry blanket claim we can put in Wikipedia's voice re:. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 12:29, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carl von Voit, the ‘father of dietetics’ ? 

message: Dietetics is still redirecting to Dietitian in 2023, which means that, de facto, Dietitian remains English-language Wikipedia’s article on the subject of dietetics. However, the article currently offers few indications of the historical and cultural diversity of ways of understanding what counts as dietetics.
To only begin to illustrate this diversity, two examples: according to Michael Kent’s Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2016), dietetics is a “branch of knowledge” concerned with “how diet affects health” (this is the view represented in the present wiki article). From a different point in historico-cultural space, meanwhile, Immanuel Kant appeals to a definition of dietetics as an “art” concerned quite generally with “the prevention of illness” (Conflict of the Faculties, 1798, sec. III). From this point of view, dietetics is certainly concerned with eating well, but not to the exclusion of other possible techniques of illness-prevention. What Kant presents as dietetics includes considerations about whether to keep one’s feet warm or cold, whether to sleep a little or a lot, and whether to read or think hard about an intellectual problem while eating (Kant suggests that one should avoid belabouring head and stomach at the same time).
Several editors of this page have already pointed out that the extra-dietary issues that Kant takes up are by no means outliers in relation to the historical and cultural variety of discourses on dietetics. But while English-language Wikipedia presently does an okay job of talking about dietetics in the sense defined in Michael Kent's Food and Fitness, it seems to offer little to those interested in the histories of dietetics, and in how its concerns might have been articulated by Kant, or Hunayn ibn Ishaq, or the Hippocratic tradition – not to mention anyone falling outside the circle of relevance drawn by prominent genealogies of “Western civilization”.
German-language WP offers one example of doing it better. It has separate articles for dietitian (de:Diätassistent) and dietetics (:de:Diätetik). Diätetik, while by no means a long article, indicates fairly clearly that what counts as dietetics varies depending on the context, and attempts to do justice to this fact by including a historical survey of European approaches to dietetics (Ancient Greek, medieval, humanist, later modern) and briefer pointers to Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Anthroposophical dietetical knowledges. Yet unfortunately, while the contents of Diätassistent and Diätetik diverge widely, both of them are obliged to link to Dietitian as their equivalent article on English-language WP. — Aingotno (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What ‘diatetics’ means depends on the context