Dietetics and Nutrition
Nutrition is the science of balancing food components to meet the body's needs optimally, along with the social, emotional, and psychological reasons related to food intake. As diet has a direct effect on wellness, nutritious food is essential to the maintenance of good health, the prevention and treatment of disease, and rehabilitation and restoration of health.
Society is becoming newly aware of nutrition as it affects individual and public health. Recent data, particularly about weight control, has brought the relationship between nutrition and health more sharply into focus. Partly due to commercial marketing, however, achieving good nutritional status has become more complex.
As the demand for more information about foods and their nutritional value increases, the role of nutrition-related occupations will continue to expand.
