Nutripreneur of Month - Jennifer Dhuri

Full Name: Jennifer Dhuri

Company Name: Jennifer’s Nutrition and Diet Solutions

Company motto: Redefining the meaning of diet and nutrition centering attention on balance, moderation and variety; nutrition to help not only health of the body but mind too

Work Profile:  

• Mainly involved with one on one diet consultation and consulting ipd patients 
• Provide corporate talks, customized seminars and workshops 
• Recipe and menu development
• Corporate consulting
• Health education and wellness consulting
• Team sports
• Lectures and talks for schools/ colleges, conducting camps and workshops for obesity diets, 
• Pregnancy diets
• Food analysis and labelling

Years of experience: About 18 years 

Education: Jennifer has completed B.H.Sc. in Dietetics and Food Nutrition from the SVT College of Home Science, SNDT University and post graduation in Dietetics and Food Nutriton from IHMCTAN, Mumbai. She is a registered dietitian 

Family background: Jennifer was born in a Parsi family and is married into a Maharashtrian family. Her husband  is a doctor and Director/Proprietor of Sapna Hospital and she has a beautiful 12 year old daughter. Her brother and sister are engineers and she is the only dietitian in a family of engineers. Jennifer's mother and husband have been most supportive and have encouraged her at every step. Since she was in 8th grade, it was actually decided by her mother that she should do something in the field of nutrition as her mother believes that the remedy for all illness lies within us and in out kitchen and that's how Jennifer decided to pursue Nutrition & Dietetics 

Before Becoming A Nutripreneur:

• Worked as Senior Dietician at Parsee General Hospital, Mumbai for 5 years and was a part of the academic team giving lectures on Dietetics and Nutrition at the Parsee General Nursing School
• She has also worked as a Dietician at the SCN Sports Club, Kandivli (East), Mumbai for a period of 2 years.

How did it all start: Jennifer says that technically starting up on her own was a process almost since the time she was working as a full time Dietician at the PG Hospital. She already had started her own practice at her husband's hospital clinic at Andheri, East. After she got pregnant with her daughter she decided to quit the full time job as her child was her priority. With immense support from her husband she continued consulting at her hospital clinic and at hospitals in her area. She slowed down but did not stop. It was then again when her daughter was big enough, about 5 years back, that she decided she needed to go full throttle with her career. She started meeting all the doctors in her area telling them how they can send patients for consultation. She started advertising herself through print and local search engines as well. This was a huge task as there is so much money involved and she did it on instalment basis. She also started her private practice at Powai. It took her quite some time to create a name for herself. Patient numbers were not that great in the beginning but with her families support and love kept her going. She also started her blog as well as nutrition page to create more awareness in the public. Today she proudly says that she has many clients through doctor as well as patient referrals. 

Current:

• She does one on one diet consultation as well as online diet consultation
• She still visit hospitals for OPD and IPD patients
• At present she is also working as a Consultant Dietitian  seeing OPD & IPD patients for the following hospitals: Sapna Hospital, Paramount Hospital, Medicare Hospital, Ashirwad Hospital, Rachna Hospital, Dhanvantri Hospital, Pooja Hospital, Ageless Medica Aesthetic Clinic, Andheri (East), Mumbai
• She is involved in corporate activities as well

Lessons learnt in the journey:

• Life is full of lessons. Every journey in life cannot be planned to perfection but it can be travelled and enjoyed

Message for budding nutritionists:

• The best prize that life can offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing
• If you are passionate about what you want there is nothing that can stop you
• Trust who and what you are. Trust your choices
• We are a part of a beautiful profession. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There is then nothing that can stop you from shining through

We wish Jennifer all the very best for future

- Team NII