Changing priorities in nutrition -- Food selection -- Methods of nutritional assessment and surveillance -- Investigating links between diet and health outcomes -- Investigating links between diet and health : amalgamation, synthesis and decision making -- Dietary guidelines and recommendations -- Introduction to energy aspects of nutrition -- Energy balance and its regulation -- Obesity -- Carbohydrates -- Protein and amino acids -- Fat -- Dietary supplements and food fortification -- Food as medicine -- The vitamins -- The minerals -- Nutrition and the human life-cycle -- Nutrition as treatment -- Some other groups and circumstances -- The safety and quality of food.