Personal Narrative: My Passion For Nutrition

For as long as I can remember, my heart has been set on helping the world in any way that I can. Being in the medical field seemed like the ideal way to do so. Nutrition and dietetics caught my attention as I began my journey towards recovery of an eating disorder. My passion for nutrition stems from learning how to have a healthy relationship with food. I knew that choosing this area of study could be risky, but instead it is helping me. By learning how much damage I was doing to my body, it inspired me to make better food choices and push me harder towards recovery. My experience with my eating disorder has furthered my passion of wanting to help people by educating the public about proper food choices and how food can greatly affect health
For the past five years, I have been a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and am able to deliver a meal to people who are unable to cook for themselves. I have seen these meals becoming smaller and smaller each year while the price of the meal increases. Five years ago, the meals provided were balanced, colorful, and fresh. The meals being provided now are prepackaged frozen, reheated, colorless, and half of the size of what it used to be. The decrease in quality and quantity of these meals through the years bring me to realize that more emphasis needs to be focused on the nutrition these people are receiving rather than the profit being
My short-term goal is to work on earning a master’s degree while being employed in a clinical setting to gain more experience and knowledge. Throughout a span of five years, I hope to have spent time in various fields of nutrition and dietetics including pregnancy, pediatrics, or possibly geriatrics. Within ten years of earning my RD, it is a goal of mine to further my education by obtaining a Ph.D. and hold a high position in a clinical setting or go into private practice. In addition, it would be a privilege to mentor the next generation of RD’s to share the knowledge and experiences to ensure