What is Nutrition and Dietetics?
Nutrition is the study of nutrients—carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals—that are essential for life. Nutrition students learn how these nutrients are ingested, digested, absorbed, metabolized, stored and excreted. Nutrition also involves the study of food availability and how the nutrition choices we make can affect our health. Dietetics is the profession that translates the science of nutrition into practice. Those professionals working in hospitals generally use the job title “Dietitian”, while in public health the job title “Nutritionist” is used.
