ENTREPRENEURSHIP

IN THE FIELD OF
NUTRITION & DIETETICS
PRESENTER
Bikram Poudel
Sanjeev Bhele
SEM III
MSc. Nutrition & Dietetics, CAFODAT
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Contents
• Entrepreneur
• Quality of Entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurship
• Pillars of Entrepreneurship
• Nutrition & Dietetics
• Nutritionist &Dietitian
• Role of Nutritionist & Dietitians
• Scopes of Nutritionist & Dietitians
• Nutripreneur/ Dietitian Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneur
• An Entrepreneur is a person who develop a new idea and take the
risk of setting up an enterprises to produce a services which satisfies
customers need and well being.
• Entrepreneur is an individual who, rather than working as an
employee, runs a small business and assumes all the risk and reward of
a given business venture, idea, or good or service offered for sale. The
entrepreneur is commonly seen as a business leader and innovator of
new ideas and business processes.

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Quality of Entrepreneur
• Opportunity-seeking
• Persevering
• Risk Taking
• Demanding for efficiency and quality
• Information-seeking
• Goal setting
• Planning
• Persuasion and networking
• Building self-confidence
• Listening to others
• Demonstrating leadership

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Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other
organization where entrepreneur develops a business plan, acquires the
human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its
success or failure with the capacity and willingness to develop
organize and manage a business venture along with any of
its risks in order to make a profit.
• It is a practice and a process that results in creativity, innovation and
enterprise development and growth that refers to an individual’s ability
to turn ideas into action involving and engaging in socially-useful
wealth creation through application of innovative thinking and
execution to meet consumer needs, using one’s own labour, time and
ideas.
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 Pillars of Entrepreneurship
i. An idea and market.
ii. Skills/knowledge and experience.

MOTIVATON & WORK

iii. Resources.

RESOURCES
iv. Motivation and hard work.

IDEA

SKILLS
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Nutrition & Dietetics
• Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and
other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth,
reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
• Dietetics is the interpretation and communication of the science of
nutrition where individual can make practical choices about food and
life style in terms of both health and diseases.

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Nutritionist &Dietitian
• A nutritionist is a qualified nutrition professional that has the expertise to
provide a range of evidence based nutrition services related to nutrition,
public health nutrition, policy and research, and community health.
• A nutritionist is a person who advises on matters of food and nutrition that
impacts on health.
• Dietitian are the healthcare professionals and experts who treats nutritional
problems and overview the patients by providing dietary needs, plans
menus, and instructs patients and their families about proper nutritional
care.
• Dietitians have the expertise to provide individual dietary counselling,
medical nutrition therapy (MNT), group dietary therapy and food service
management.
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 Role & responsibilities of Nutritionist &
Dietitians
• Responsible for developing, planning, directing, and coordinating
nutritional and dietetic services at the institutional level.
• Implement food handling and storage policies that will assure food safety.
• Plan, organize, and conduct nutrition and dietetic education for patients.
• Complete nutritional assessments and participate in the interdisciplinary
comprehensive assessments.
• Develop and implement an individualized education plan for medical
nutrition therapy in accordance with the patient's medical program goals and
objectives.
• Facilitate group sessions, participate in supervised lunch groups, and meal
planning.
• Help the food service director in developing and providing in-service
education and training for dietary employees.
• Develop and prepare statistical reports, including documentation of patient
assessments and nutritional care plans in medical records.
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Scopes of Nutritionist & Dietitians
 Health care units and institutions.
 Community and public health.
 Entrepreneurial and private practice.
 Foodservice systems/ department.
 Integrative and functional food/ medicine.
 Management and leadership.
 Military service.

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 Nutrition informatics.
 Preventive care, wellness, and weight management.
 Research.
 School nutrition.
 Sports nutrition.
 Sustainable resilient healthy food and water systems programs.
 Business and communications.

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 Entrepreneurs

NUTRITION

NUTRITIONIST NUTRIPRENEUR DITETIANS

DITETICS

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Nutripreneurship/ Dietitian
Entrepreneurship
• Nutripreneurship is the practice and process that results in creativity,
innovation, development and growth of nutrition businesses.
• As we know, entrepreneurship is a self willing and approached
business firm which starts with a limited investment where they paved
their own pathway with their efforts and ideas in their corresponding
field.
• So, in the field of nutrition and dietetics entrepreneurship, a person is
termed as: NUTRIPRENEURS.
• Nutripreneurs are nutritionists innovators who use a process of
changing the current situation of the existing products and services, to
set up new products and new services.
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• Basically, Nutripreneurs are the trained and skilled entrepreneurs who
may engaged in a field such as:
Private Nutrition/ Diet Clinics.
Researcher firms.
School Nutrition Facilitators.
Gyms and Workout firms Nutrition Counselor.
Bloggers, Webinars.
Consultant.
Nutraceutical based firms.

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• Nutritionists and Dietitians in private practice are entrepreneurs
(Nutripreneurs) and innovators in providing nutrition products (functional
foods)and services to consumers, industry, media, and businesses.
• They can provide MNT (Medical Nutrition Therapy) to individuals and
groups in all populations.
• They can be chief executive officers, business owners, consultants,
professional speakers, writers, journalists, chefs, educators, health and
wellness coaches, and spokespersons.
• They can work under contract for organizations and government agencies,
such as health care or food companies, businesses and corporations,
employee wellness programs, and the media.
• Nutritionists and Dietitians Entrepreneurs can provide comprehensive food
(litto/ malted products) and nutrition services to individuals, groups,
foodservice and restaurant managers, food vendors and distributors,
athletes, sports teams, and company employees.
• They can act as expert witnesses and consultants on legal matters related to
food and nutrition.
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Thank you!!!

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