Hello! My name is Julia D. and I
am currently in the nutrition major at the University of Alberta. I did not grow up wanting to go into
the nutrition major but rather it was something that I stumbled into. I have a love for people and I also enjoyed science in school.
I am also, what I like to term as being a “foodie”, which just means that
I have a love for food. The nutrition major was an amazing way for me to bring my passions
together. My hope is to get into the dietetic internship and then to go on to become a
dietitian.
Outside of Facebook I have not used social media as a valuable means of communication. However I have been given many examples of how it can be a great asset to use things like twitter accounts and running a blog to create more awareness about my interests and aspirations. Future employers may use the social media sites that I am a part as part of their hiring criteria. Last semester there were some of my peers that also started blogs. Emily started her own blog that also talks about the communication aspects of nutrition. She talks mostly about how the different communication tools help to share new nutritional information between health professionals as well with the general public. http://emilyshand.blogspot.com/
Over
the last several years is seems there has become a growing concern for an
individuals nutritional needs.
This may come from different connections that have made about our diet influencing illnesses such as diabetes. Diabetes has become more common over the years and there have
people that have been able to create awareness through things like journal
articles and more recently there has been websites and blogs started. The dietitians in Canada have set up a website to bring nutritional information to the general public and this is a very useful communication tool. Their site is http://www.dietitians.ca/. This method of communication allows for information to get out
to the general public and not just be contained within the professional health
community.
Well here is my first attempt at using a blog as a means of communication and I look forward to learning more about the technology as I go.
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