Students of Nutrition and Dietetics department, delivered motivational presentations for 12th grade ‘students

To familiarize the students with the terms of Nutrition and to enhance the level of awareness, a group of students of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of Cihan University-Erbil held a seminar for 12th-grade high school students.

On Sunday,6/2/2022, under the supervision of Dr. Bahnaz Shahro khisahneh at Cihan High School, fourth-grade students from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics organized a seminar for 12th-grade high school students.

In the seminar, Nutrition and Dietetics students discussed the importance of Nutrition and Dietetics for students, and in another part of their seminar, students discussed future work. Graduates of the department explained that Nutrition and Dietetics graduates can work in many different health and food institutions, including hospitals, health centers, food quality, and many other places.
In their seminar, students discussed the role of food characteristics and the role of nutritionists in raising awareness of individuals in the community, particularly the interaction between medicine and food, as well as the creation of food types, particularly healthy food, and how to protect the body from harmful foods.

After presenting the topics, an open discussion began between students from Jihan-Erbil University and World High School, and students from the Department of (nutrition and dietetics )answered all the questions of 12th-grade students.

The primary purpose of the activity, plus introducing and alerting high school students in the field of food and Nutrition, is also to train students in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics to teach them how to educate the community, especially after completing the courses at the university.