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Dietetics

Helen Reid, an Arrowtown dietitian, prepares food for a course on preserving fruit and vegetables for an adult community education course in 2009. Dietetics is the science of diet and nutritional therapy. Dietitians are experts in this field.

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Health-care practice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28316/dietetics (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.