Dietetics & Nutrition: Health & Wellness through Food

We hope you had a happy New Year & are ready to join us for an exciting & productive 2016! After last week's 2015 Year in Review, we're back to our normal schedule of focusing on one distinct profession that Enky serves each week. This week, we're focusing on a profession that is in high demand during this time of year: Dietitians & Nutritionists. As many Americans make New Year's resolutions to get healthy, eat right, or lose weight this year, they may consult a dietitian or nutritionist for actionable advice & plans to help achieve their goals.

Dietitians & nutritionists are experts in the use of food & nutrition to promote health & manage disease. They advise people on what to eat in order to lead a healthy lifestyle or achieve a specific health-related goal, like losing weight. Dietitians & nutritionists evaluate the health of their clients, & based on these evaluations, they advise clients on what foods to eat & which to avoid to improve their health. Many dietitians & nutritionists provide customized information for specific individuals, which can help patients with diseases like diabetes or heart disease. Becoming a nutritionist or dietitian is a process that generally starts with a bachelor's degree in the field. Internships after college graduation are usually required to provide the several hundred hours of training needed to learn about the practice of dietetics & nutrition outside of the classroom. Most states also require dietitians & nutritionists to be licensed, which almost always include passing an exam, possessing a bachelor's degree or higher in the field, & completing supervised field training.

If you're interested in learning more about the growing fields of Dietetics and Nutrition, be sure to check out our infographic below, as well as visiting our Facebook & Twitter pages all this week for more great curated dietetics & nutrition content!

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Looking Forward to 2016

The past year has been an exciting one for Enky, as we have grown from an idea to a true business start-up. Enky was started back in June by our co-founders & executive team, Mike Coté & Bryan Andrade, as a simple way for professionals across the US to find, track, & complete their continuing education credits. Since then, we have been hard at work on further developing & testing the idea through our interactions with future users & course provider partners who will form the 2 sides of our Professional Education Marketplace. Your feedback has been critical in learning what different professionals from industries as varied as healthcare (for humans & animals), finance, & design/engineering need in a continuing education solution. Please continue interacting with us via our Facebook & Twitter pages, as well as over email, so we can listen to your concerns & suggestions & use them to improve our service.

Speaking of the Enky service, we are excited to announce that we will be launching a public beta version of the Enky Professional Education Marketplace during the 2nd Quarter of 2016! This beta will have all of the features we have detailed in our previous blog posts, including: a full search to find continuing education courses throughout the US, Enky SmartTrack to help users track & manage their past, current, & future education courses, Deadline Digest to remind you of upcoming deadlines & courses, and our proprietary Course Recommendation Engine which uses browsing history & information shared by the user to tailor course suggestions to each individual professional. Registration for the public beta is now open at enky.com & is simple & completely free of charge. We are deeply committed to serving the professional community as best we can & we are sure that we will not let you down. Stay tuned for more frequent updates on our progress with the beta release & all of the great professional content you have come to expect from the Enky team. We look forward to seeing you in the Professional Education Marketplace!

Sincerely,

The Enky Team