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You know what? This might be a very boring subject, but it is really useful if you're an nutritionist, bc it's
part of us. Being in a nutritionist is also you have to be ready like you will become an educator. So focus
will be nutrition education. Bc even if asa ka ibutang like hospital you’re still going to conduct nutrition
counseling, dietary instruction but included or embedded in that will be your nutrition education Now if
you go to a community, it’s almost the same. If you’re a Community or healthcare worker assigned in
the community. You will still be task in disseminating or improving the nutritional status of the
community you’re handling. So in the end, you're still going to have nutrition education sessions.
I am going to give you an overview about education for the chapter 1 unit 2
So, nutrition education is not merely giving out of information That is not nutrition education.
Informal or Incidental Nutrition education = seen in TV/food commercials bc they are educating or
letting the consumers know that they contain such nutrients, but they are not a formal nutrition
educator. It’s only incidental. Accordingly