Agriculture Education

Heath is the most essential asset of life. It is the factor, which forms the reason for a human being to live his life in a fearless way and correspondingly in a positive direction. Healthy food, with full of nutritional value, helps a individual to live longer and be a lot more jubilant all the time, adding value to the lifestyle and the environment in which he is living. There are many other factors, which contribute towards the healthy lifestyle, but a correct diet is some thing, which contributes the most for leading a disease and a tension free life of the human beings. With the growing interest and the cautiousness of the folks towards the nutritional value of the food taken, educational courses related to the same have also been started taken by the students. There are several colleges in India, which have courses in the field of food and nutrition and which prepares the students for the careers, corresponding to the food business.

The courses in food and nutrition in India, educates the students about diverse aspects of the industry and how a correct diet can assist the human beings have a greater growth in life. The students applying for the food and nutrition courses will need to have biology as there subjects in the senior secondary education. The students ought to have the knowledge about the anatomy of the human body, so that he is able to analyse the difficulties and work on it in a better way. There are also several hospitals in India, which have their team of nutritionists, which aid the patients recover from their illness, with the intake of healthy food. There are undergraduate as well as post graduate courses in food and nutrition in the colleges of India. The colleges in India, which supply courses in food and nutrition, are:

v     Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Patna

v     All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata

v     University of Health Science, Vijaywada

v     Delhi School of Residence Economics, New Delhi

v     Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

v     Tamil Nadu GD Naidu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

v     Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad

v     Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Delhi University, New Delhi

v     National Institute of Nutrition (Indian Council of Medical Study), Hyderabad

v     Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, New Delhi

These colleges supply degree as well as diploma courses in food and nutrition. The major aim of these colleges is to train the students in a way that they are able to give their greatest in the professions related to food and nutrition. There are several possibilities in the field of food and nutrition, which a student can opt as his career. Couple of of the possibilities are explained as below:

v     Working with government or private hospitals as nutritionists or dieticians

v     Opening up a separate clinic, serving the local men and women or patients around the region, is also an alternative, which is always open for the students.

v     Working in the hotel management industry, taking care of the nutritional value in the food served, which is generally followed in the five stars or the big brands in the hotel industry.

v     Working as a writer or an editor, in the food and beverages section of any product of the print medium

v     Working in the colleges or schools as teachers or professors in the home sciences field, or in the subjects related to food and nutrition.

All these possibilities and many far more like, being a personal dietician of famous personalities, and getting the credit for their fitness is also an option, which adds glamour to the life of the normal nutritionists. A student, going for the career in the field of food and nutrition are highly accountable for the well being of his patients and helps the men and women live their life happily and in a a lot more joyful manner, by keeping them away from diseases.