81487 - Healthy Eating

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8474)

Learning outcomes

The student, at the end of the course acquires knowledge about healthy lifestyles and values that must be transmitted to the citizens to prevent the onset of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers.

Course contents

Lifestyle and cardiovascular health. Nutrients. Dietetic regimes. Recommendations. Caloric restriction and longevity. Aging. Metagenomic and nutrigenomic.

Readings/Bibliography

Rapporto Osservasalute 2015. Osservatorio Nazionale della Salute nelle Regioni Italiane.

Ravera A et al. Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: Finding the Perfect Recipe for Cardiovascular Health. Nutrients 2016, 8, 363.

Fontana L, Portridge L. Promoting Health and Longevity through Diet: From Model Organisms to Humans. Cell 2015, 161 (1); 106–118.

Teaching methods

The course consists of 1 CFU (frontal teaching). A seminar given by a food expert is scheduled.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of the oral presentation of a topic casually extracted by a default list of 5 questions given at the beginning of the course.
The vote is 1/6 to the final grade of the Integrated Course.

Teaching tools

The teaching material presented in class will be made available on amsacta.unibo.it in electronic format.

Office hours

See the website of Gianandrea Pasquinelli