LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge of the methods for assessig body composition and related clinical limitations

carry out a reliable alimentary interview in the obese patient

set a adequate therapeutic relationship with the obese patient

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

for prescibing a therapeutic dietary regimen to the obese patients, clinical and laboratory data have to be available. Furthermore, data on the individual physical structute and on the alimentari habits and bahavior have to be well known. 

Students have to be aware on the diferent method for assessing the body composition and  body sectors size, and understand the limits and the different application fields. They will be able to collects an accurate alimentary interview and to record the alimentary habits and behavior with related disorders

They will be able to propose to the obese patients adequate behavior modifications with the aim of obtaining a weight reduction and a disappearance of metabolic and structural complications. With this aim, they will be able to set a good therapeutic relationship.

TEACHING METHODS

Orat teaching

theaching in small groups

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

body composition

energy expediture

eating habits and behaviors in the normal population 

Alimentary style and eatin behavior in the obese patientss

Therapeutic colloquium with the obese patient

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adami: Guida all’obesità. Franco Angeli 2003

Ligure. Nutrizione e dietologia. Zamichelli 2015

Binetti, Marcelli, Baisi; Manuale di dietologia, Societù Italiana Universo2009