Instagram Account with 242,000 Followers Encourages Students to Eat Healthier

Rachel Paul's daily meal plan posts educate students on eating filling, balanced meals. Photo from @collegenutritionist

With previous features in Buzzfeed, Huffpost, Nylon, Business Insider, and Daily Mail, Rachel Paul is all the rage in the nutrition world. With 242,000 Instagram followers, Paul has a new, unique approach as a nutritionist. Via her Instagram account, @collegenutritionist, Paul’s focus is primarily college students. Paul posts pictures of the daily meal plans she creates that encourage students to have find food options that are filling, yet balanced.

“What’s most important to me, and I think to a lot of others, is showing how healthy eating is so accessible, easy, and fun. Healthy eating does NOT require using 15 ingredients and only high-priced organic foods. It’s so wonderful to actually see people making my 3-4 ingredient meals and snacks, and telling me how they have discovered how healthy eating is truly doable and fun for them,” she says

Paul has taken advantage of her social media platforms to educate college students on their health because that’s where students are spending most of their time. While engaging with students via Twitter and Instagram, she follows up with them on her blog of the same title with longer, more in-depth content.