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Are online programs to become a holistic health practitioner legitimate?
Question : Are online programs to become a holistic health practitioner legitimate?
I’ve been looking at programs to become a HHP or nutritional consultant online. They look a little suspicious because I’ve heard a B.S. is required to become certified as a dietician (these are 1200 hour classes) and I was wondering if they are worth investing any kind of money into/what the difference is. I was looking at Global College of Natural Medicine and Huntington College of Health Sciences… scam or a smart choice?
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Answer by juicefastfan
I can’t say anything positive or negative about those places because I know nothing about them personally, but I faced this same question, for myself, a couple years ago. Ultimately, it came down to asking myself another question…..would I WANT to go to someone that got their education online, and for me, the answer was no. But, I still had the desire to enter this field so I looked around at different places for a year, while I saved up enough money and found one thats only an hour away from my house. I’m just now starting my 3rd year.
Ask yourself and some friends the same question, and see what answers you come up with….would you want to go to an HHP that received the bulk of their education online??
I will give you this one piece of advice. My father is a professor and often chairs committees to hire new professors. He frequently sees resumes from people who got their master’s degree or Ph.D. from an online university. He says that those applications are always thrown out immediately because real colleges and universities do not consider online degrees to be valid. It pains him to do it, because he doesn’t want to tell them that their degree is worthless, but at the same time it really is. If academics don’t consider the degree valid then maybe it isn’t worth the time and money.
The difference between dietitian and nutritionist is that dietitian is a protected term, you actually have to pass standardized tests and be licensed and so forth. Anyone who wants to can just call themselves a nutritionist. If I needed a person to talk to about what I eat I would always go to a dietitian because I know they are actually well schooled and base their advice in science.