Nutritional scientists can be employed in many different ways. Scientific work is required in the area of research and development. For example, you will be involved in the planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of scientific studies. Human studies can be used to investigate factors influencing people’s dietary behavior as well as the influence of dietary patterns on the development of diseases such as diabetes mellitus or cardiovascular diseases.
Alternatively, you will be involved in communicating study results to both the public and professionals in an understandable way. As a specialist journalist, you write for scientists based on study results. The study results can also be used to market products. In the context of nutritional counseling, as a nutritionist you directly support patients with nutrition-associated diseases such as food intolerances and metabolic diseases to maintain or even improve their health.