DIETOTERAPIA NELLE DIVERSE FASI DELLA VITA

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year

Teaching Staff

Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 63 hours
Term / Semester: 2°

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.

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)

ENDOCRINOLOGY
- Endocrinologia e Metabolismo, F. Trimarchi e D. Cucinotta, Editore: EDAS, 2010

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