Nutrition and Dietetics Association

Hello, I am Gizem Arı. I am a 4th year student at the Nutrition and Dietetics Department of Yuksek Ihtisas University. As the Nutrition and Dietetics Club of Yuksek Ihtisas University, we organize meetings, interviews, symposiums and events to give information about nutrition to every individual we can reach in the society, especially the students of our university. We generally hold our club meetings in the meeting rooms, libraries and classrooms of our university. Our club currently has around 100 active members. Our club’s door is open to everyone who would like to become our member but our members are mostly Nutrition and Dietetics students who want to understand our department better, gather information about it and to develop themselves further. The social activities that we organize throughout the year include nursing home visits, nature walks, health and nutrition symposiums, and the school interviews we organize during awareness weeks. Our biggest event in this context was the Healthy Nutrition Symposium which took place on 6th April 2018. The turnout for the symposium was quite high. The attendees were the students of our university and Nutrition and Dietetics students of other universities from out of town. The second major event was the Nutrition in Autism and Physiotherapy awareness event which we organised together with the Physiotherapy Research Community. Like I said earlier, our door is open to all students of our university, regardless of their departments. We welcome everyone who wants to get information about the club, who is curious about nutrition and who wants to participate in our activities. Belonging to this club increased my self-confidence, developed my organisation skills, taught me the importance of having a social circle and gave me a new perspective about the department I am a student of. We welcome all the new students to our club.