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Answer for the clue "A specialist in the study of nutrition ", 9 letters:
dietitian

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who studies or practices dietetics.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician , nutritionist ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see dietician .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A dietitian (or dietician ) is an expert in dietetics ; that is, human nutrition and the regulation of diet . A dietitian alters their patient's nutrition based upon their medical condition and individual needs. Dietitians are the only healthcare professionals ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dietist \Di"et*ist\, Dietitian \Di`e*ti"tian\, n. One skilled in dietetics. [R.]

Usage examples of dietitian.

How many times have you heard me argue that marriage is irrelevant in a world like ours, when ectogenesis will soon relieve the womb of its role in the reproductive process, and dietitians will make sure that all children are raised successfully?

The Chief Dietitian will be accommodated on the casualty deck, it requires no special life-support and it will not risk damaging your light-gravity furniture and equipment by going forward, unless at your express invitation.

Most of the recipes were not awful, although they stressed the kind of weakly flavored mock-ethnic dishes that American dietitians love and I despise.

Thursday evenings, she wanted to hold a series of lectures, asking a dietitian, podiatrist, and an ophthalmologist to speak.

By "special" I do not mean a prescribed course (for dietitians of the mind are quite as apt to be faddists as dietitians of the stomach), but just that sort of reading which a person who passionately loves books would most want to introduce her children to.

Instantly, traffic was heavy, sidewalks and streets congested with nurses, dietitians, orderlies, custodians, security guards, administrators, resident doctors and chaplains, all of them worn out, underpaid and cranky.

Probably keeps three dietitians and a biochemist busy preventing him from going overweight, Leoh groused to himself.

Sirocco had joined them despite the regulation against officers’ fraternizing with enlisted men, and Corporal Swyley was up and about again after the dietitian at the Brigade sick bay had enforced a standing order to put Swyley on spinach and fish whenever he was admitted.