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Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services is a degree category that consists of the following common degrees:
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Dietetics is the field of science concerned with how nutrition and healthy eating affect our overall health. The dietetics major is a professional program which prepares students to earn a dietitian license, which is required by many states.
Degree programs in dietetics focus on foodservice systems management, clinical nutrition, and community / population health. The curriculum spans general chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology, the food and nutrition sciences, human physiology and anatomy, the psychology of human behavior, and the design, implementation, and management of effective nutrition programs.