DIETOTERAPIA NELLE DIVERSE FASI DELLA VITA

Learning Objectives

• DIETOTHERAPY IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF LIFE
  • increase students’ knowledge about the characteristics of the different stages of life and their nutritional needs
  • Learn notions of dietetics (in individuals and in the community) and of diet therapy evidence based
  • Use the knowledge acquired to plan good strategies in each situation and reach the goals
  • Develop personal attitudes for a good therapeutic relationship
• ENDOCRINOLOGY

  The course aims to deepen the knowledge on the pathophysiological mechanisms of the main endocrine-metabolic diseases correlated to pregnancy and in some clinical conditions of adulthood and the role of diet in their prevention and treatment.

• GINECOLOGIA ED OSTETRICIA

  The aim of the course is to integrate diet therapy with the nutritional needs of both pregnant women, taking into account those that may be the risks, infectious or behavioral, which are subject to an erroneous diet, both of affected women. from diseases such as endometriosis, ovarian polycytosis or thyroid diseases

Course Structure

• ENDOCRINOLOGY

  Lectures and / or discussion of clinical cases and / or papers and / or individual research carried out by students individually or as group work

• GINECOLOGIA ED OSTETRICIA

  Lectures will mostly be lectures, assisted by the use of video and slides. These are interactive lessons in which the student can discuss with the teacher for any clarification. To ensure better learning, each lesson will provide students with the slides of the next lesson.

Detailed Course Content

• DIETOTHERAPY IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF LIFE
  • Introduction to the characteristics and peculiarities of the different stages of life and their nutritional needs
  • Nutrition in a healthy child
  • Nutrition in the overweight AND obese child
  • Nutrition in the child with diabetes
  • Nutrition in adolescents
  • Nutrition in healthy adult
  • Nutrition in women: in fertile age, in pregnancy and lactation and in menopause
  • Nutrition in the elderly
  • Nutrition and celiac disease
  • Carbohydrate Counting
• ENDOCRINOLOGY

  - Pathophysiology of thyroid and iodine intake

  - Diabetes and pregnancy

  - Menopause

  - Calcium metabolism and osteoporosis

  - Pathophysiology of ovarian diseases and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

• GINECOLOGIA ED OSTETRICIA
  1. Maternal nutrition and fetal growth
  2. DHA
  3. Alcohol and pregnancy
  4. Infectious diseases in pregnancy and feeding
  5. Thyroid disorders in pregnancy
  6. Gestational diabetes: fetal risks of gestational diabetes
  7. Environmental pollutants and reproductive risk
  8. Nutrition in patients with endometriosis
  9. Nutrition in patients with pCOS

Textbook Information

• DIETOTHERAPY IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF LIFE

  1. Larn

  2. National and International Guidelines

• ENDOCRINOLOGY

  1) Endocrinologia e Metabolismo, F. Trimarchi e D. Cucinotta, Editore: EDAS, 2010

  2) Vanozzi G- Leandro G. Lineamenti di Dietoterapia e nutrizione clinica, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore

• GINECOLOGIA ED OSTETRICIA

  ''Ginecologia ed Ostetricia'' di Pescetto G , L. De Cecco et al; 4th Edition of the year 2009 and material provided by the teacher.