Clinical Nutrition

Community Nutrition

Community nutrition is helpful to develop healthy eating habits in individuals and groups in order to promote wellness and prevent disease. Dieticians and nutritionists work along with other health care professionals in promoting improved community nutrition.

The goals of community nutrition are:

·         To educate individuals and groups to adopt healthy eating habits.

·         A preventive approach in educating individuals in how to reduce the risk of illness by a change in diet.

·         To educate individuals with diabetes to control their blood glucose levels through diet as well as medication.