Nutrition and Dietetics

Nutrition and Dietetics

What do you study in Nutrition and Dietetics?

Nutrition and Dietetics is the university field where science and food come together to improve people's health. Here you will learn to design personalised diets, understand how nutrients affect the body and apply that knowledge to both healthy people and patients with specific conditions.

  • Physiology and biochemistry of human nutrition
  • Design of eating plans tailored to each person
  • Diet therapy: food as a clinical treatment tool
  • Sports, child, geriatric and community nutrition
  • Food safety and nutrition labelling
  • Clinical placements in hospitals and health centres

With this degree, you will be able to work as a dietitian-nutritionist in hospitals, clinics, sports centres and food companies, or practise independently, advising people who want to improve their health through food.