What is the difference between a dietician and a nutricionist?

Question

or are they the same thing?

Answer 1

Although they both serve the same basic function in counseling people on healthy eating habits; a dietitian is licensed and has to have a bachelors degree in dietics while a nutritionist is certified and may have done their study outside a collegiate environment. Usually a dietitian can do more clinical work as with a person with specific medical conditions. A nutritionist usually focuses on general advice and would not work in a clinical setting such as a hospital or medical clinic.

Answer 2

A dieteition deals with the food you eat while nutritionist deals with the minerals your body lacks

Answer 3

same