The Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health discovers, disseminates and applies knowledge to promote improved food choices and nutritional status, prevent and rehabilitate injuries, understand consumer preferences and behaviors, and enhance the well-being of people via food and physical activity. Our department provides students unsurpassed access to leaders in food and health across the fields of athletic training, dietetics, human nutrition, obesity, public health, and sensory analysis.
The students will also gain an insight into Food and nutrition related issues arising from social, behavioral and physiological factors. The program will also emphasize on different ways of designing, implementation and evaluation of nutritional programs to improve nutritional status of the community at local, state, national and global levels especially in the vulnerable populations.