- Docente: Giulio Marchesini Reggiani
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
To provide students with information, knowledge and abilities to evaluate food intake and nutritional status in different life periods (childhood, maturity, aging), when they change according to different needs. Provide hints as to how much nutritional status is intimately linked with well-being and illness/disease in the individuals. Exploit students ability to put this information in the context of their professional competence
Course contents
Anthropometry, bioimpedenziometry, DEXA. Calories, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. The principles of indirect calorimetry. Energy balance. Physical activity and physical exercise: qualitative and quantitative methods for a correct estimate of physical activity.
Readings/Bibliography
To be decided. Students will be given slides of the material presented during lessons
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, laboratory
Planned lessons: Thursday February 12 and Tuesday February 17/2015, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Teaching room, Unit of Metabolic Diseases, Pavillon 7, ground floor.
Assessment methods
Participation to planned activities (minimum, 66%)
Teaching tools
Slides, laboratory exercise
Office hours
See the website of Giulio Marchesini Reggiani