Dietitians are experts in how nutrition can affect our health. They apply their knowledge to your personal circumstances to prevent or treat disease and improve your health and wellbeing. They consider a range of factors including your lifestyle, eating habits, cooking skills and activity levels to work towards helping you make the right food choices.
Watch this short video to find out more about what dietitians do.
Dietitians work with other health professionals such as doctors and nurses to prevent and treat a variety of complex conditions including diabetes, bowel disorders, malnutrition and obesity. Click on the appropriate section below to find out how we can help you and how you can learn to help yourself.
Welcome to Nutrition & Dietetics
Our aim is to work in partnership with you and others to provide an excellent service to improve the nutrition, health and wellbeing of the Tayside population.
What do dietitians do?
- Child Healthy Weight Service
- Dietetic team for children and young people
- Healthy eating advice
- Heart disease and stroke
- Community Food and Health
- Adult Weight Management Service
- Malnutrition
- Nutrition in Care Homes
- Tube Feeding at Home
- Learning Disabilities
- Coeliac disease
- North Cancer Nutrition
- NHS Tayside Adult Cystic Fibrosis Service
- NHS Tayside Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service
- Help with Interpretation and Translation
- Help with the cost of living
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