{"id":2914,"date":"2026-05-31T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/?page_id=2914"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:28:21","slug":"nutrition-dietetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/nutrition-dietetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition &amp; Dietetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2914\" class=\"elementor elementor-2914\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f9e56b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0f9e56b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1abead9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1abead9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nutrition and Dietetics<\/span><\/h1><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fundamental principles of the Nutrition and Dietetics program are the provision of training in basic and applied aspects of nutritional sciences as they are relevant to the understanding of Nutrition and Dietetics, the application of such training, and the understanding of assessment and improvement of nutritional status of communities, nation and overall socio-economic scientific and technological development of the country. The major objective is to train Dietetics technicians\/Nutrition assistants for employment in the public and private sectors but additionally to develop their skills for self-employment.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nutrition and Dietetics department at Gombe State College of Health Science and Technology is designed to:<\/span><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prepare therapeutic diets to prescription.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Undertake nutrition and dietetics filed survey under supervision<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assist in the planning of menus in the catering and food industries.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carry out basic catering operations.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Act as diet supervisor in hospitals, hotels, schools, industries, canteen, and social welfare agencies.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plan and administer a public enlightenment program on nutrition.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assist in assessing and formulating the nutritional qualities of food products in food industries.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Candidates must possess credit passes at the Senior Secondary School Examination (S.S.C.E) conducted by the West African Examination Council or National Examination Council (NECO), General Certificate Examination (G.C.E) at the Ordinary level or its equivalent in Mathematics, English Language, Chemistry, Biology and any social or health science subject at not more than two (2) sittings and acceptable pass mark at the UME conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition and Dietetics The fundamental principles of the Nutrition and Dietetics program are the provision of training in basic and applied aspects of nutritional sciences as they are relevant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2914\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chstkaltungo.edu.ng\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}