Introduction
The Department of Nutrition wants to promote the teaching of ‘Clinical and preventive nutrition’ in the medical curriculum.

• Bachelor

Description
Celsus (178 A.D.) described medical practice as consisting of: treatment by the way of life (Nutrition and lifestyle counselling), treatment by drugs (Pharmaceutics) and treatment by hand (Surgery). Today demographic, epidemiological and economic influences force us to pay new attention to the impact of nutrition and lifestyle factors on future health. The fast growing epidemic of chronic diseases not only causes a lot of preventable suffering in individual lives and families, but also puts growing pressures on health care expenditures, threatening future maintainability of national health care systems.
Where chronic diseases are associated with overnutrition, undernutrition is highly prevalent in patients with acute diseases. Research in the field of clinical nutrition has improved prognosis of many diseases by expanding our understanding of nutritional depletion and metabolic aberrations in relation to disease.
Physicians trained and committed to screening, assessing, treating and counselling individuals at nutritional risk may contribute significantly to the promotion of health in society.

Programme co-ordinator: Jolein A. Iestra, PhD

More information
For more information, please contact Jolein Iestra at +31 (0)88 755 9391