The discipline of diet and nutrition empowers learners to develop an understanding of the concept, principles of nutrition, which will enable them to make the best possible choices of food for meeting the nutritional needs of self, family and community at large. It is designed to help learners understand the concept of food and nutrition security and create an awareness regarding major public health/nutrition problems affecting vulnerable sections of the society and strategies, programmers, policies enacted by the Government for combating these problems. Further, the course will focus on study about the concept, scope, need, importance and process of nutrition education. Yet another focus of the discipline is to provide knowledge to learners for nutritional therapy and counseling service for the purpose of disease management. Creating awareness towards food safety and quality control measures, laws and policies is another important focus. The syllabus will help learners develop knowledge and skills in this area. This would make them competent to meet challenges of becoming a responsible citizen.