Nutrition for Sport and Health
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
The course provides knowledge on the importance of nutritional status for maintaining an organism healthy and able to meet the energy demands of physical activity. Nutritional regimens for adequate nutrient supply based on the classification of sports and the risks and benefits of supplementation will be examined. The principles underpinning the methods for assessing nutritional status and needs of the population and the individual will be analyzed.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire the necessary skills to assess: 1) adequate energy supply, correct distribution and timing of nutrient intake according to nutritional regimens for athletes during training, competition, and recovery; 2) appropriate use of dietary supplements and their mechanisms of action. Students will acquire knowledge about guidelines for a healthy, correct diet, different types of diets, and adjustments for athletes with special dietary needs (celiac disease, vegan).
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
· Levels of Reference Intake of Nutrients and Energy for the Italian population IV - 2014 revision
· Guidelines for a healthy and proper diet
· Vegetarian diet / Vegan diet
· Applied nutritional medicine: lifestyle and longevity - Polyphenols and sirtuins
· Relationship between diet, genes and health: epigenetic mechanisms
· Contributions to "tailor-made" nutrition: Nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics and metagenomics
· Relationship between food, health, sport and microbiota
· Nutrition and sport: not all calories are equal
· Factors affecting the glycemic index - glycemic load
· nutrition for hypertrophy:
· Evaluation of caloric consumption and of energy excess demand according to the subject
· Different approaches in the mass phase: high energy input, minimal energy input, insertion of mini cut
· Insulin sensitivity and high caloric diet
· Metabolic/hormonal effects of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins in the hypertrophic diet
· Integration for hypertrophy - Trophic for cartilage
· From Bulking to cutting
· Weight loss or fat loss? Whoosh effect?
· Lipid set point and settling point
· How to set the diet in the definition: get to the norm; create energy deficit
· Muscle definition diet: Peak week
· Dehydration and Loading: antidiuretic hormone (ADH), aldosterone
· Carbohydrate handling: Front loading, Wavy loading, Back loading
· The refeeding syndrome
· Metabolic adaptation: energy availability and energy balance
· Nutritional Weight Loss Strategies: losing weight by keeping fit
· Athletes food strategies
· "Caloric restriction" diets: models of Fasting Mimicking Diets
· Effects of acute and prolonged fasting (GH / IGF1 axis)
· The longevity diet
· Lipids, ketosis and sports
· ketoadaptation
· Ketogenic diet: rationale, physiology, effects
· Exogenous ketones: ketone salts and ketone esters
· Metabolic adaptation in endurance
· Nutritional strategies for competitor training (strength + endurance mode)
· Diet + exercise strategies to manipulate the availability of substrates for training and competition in endurance sports
· Nutritional strategies in team sports
· Guidelines for a healthy and proper diet
· Vegetarian diet / Vegan diet
· Applied nutritional medicine: lifestyle and longevity - Polyphenols and sirtuins
· Relationship between diet, genes and health: epigenetic mechanisms
· Contributions to "tailor-made" nutrition: Nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics and metagenomics
· Relationship between food, health, sport and microbiota
· Nutrition and sport: not all calories are equal
· Factors affecting the glycemic index - glycemic load
· nutrition for hypertrophy:
· Evaluation of caloric consumption and of energy excess demand according to the subject
· Different approaches in the mass phase: high energy input, minimal energy input, insertion of mini cut
· Insulin sensitivity and high caloric diet
· Metabolic/hormonal effects of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins in the hypertrophic diet
· Integration for hypertrophy - Trophic for cartilage
· From Bulking to cutting
· Weight loss or fat loss? Whoosh effect?
· Lipid set point and settling point
· How to set the diet in the definition: get to the norm; create energy deficit
· Muscle definition diet: Peak week
· Dehydration and Loading: antidiuretic hormone (ADH), aldosterone
· Carbohydrate handling: Front loading, Wavy loading, Back loading
· The refeeding syndrome
· Metabolic adaptation: energy availability and energy balance
· Nutritional Weight Loss Strategies: losing weight by keeping fit
· Athletes food strategies
· "Caloric restriction" diets: models of Fasting Mimicking Diets
· Effects of acute and prolonged fasting (GH / IGF1 axis)
· The longevity diet
· Lipids, ketosis and sports
· ketoadaptation
· Ketogenic diet: rationale, physiology, effects
· Exogenous ketones: ketone salts and ketone esters
· Metabolic adaptation in endurance
· Nutritional strategies for competitor training (strength + endurance mode)
· Diet + exercise strategies to manipulate the availability of substrates for training and competition in endurance sports
· Nutritional strategies in team sports
Prerequisites for admission
Previous knowledge of elements of human anatomy, physiology, metabolism and endocrinology.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures with slides projection and bibliographic sources.
Teaching Resources
· Livelli di Assunzione di riferimento di nutrienti ed energia per la popolazione italiana LARN - IV revisione 2014; Editore SICS; Autore: Società Italiana di Nutrizione Umana.
· Linee guida per una sana alimentazione - revisione 2018; Autore: CREA Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria - Centro di ricerca alimenti e nutrizione. Available at the link: https://www.crea.gov.it/web/alimenti-e-nutrizione/-/linee-guida-per-una-sana-alimentazione-2018
· Linee guida per una sana alimentazione - revisione 2018; Autore: CREA Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria - Centro di ricerca alimenti e nutrizione. Available at the link: https://www.crea.gov.it/web/alimenti-e-nutrizione/-/linee-guida-per-una-sana-alimentazione-2018
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written test: 6 topics (open questions) relating to the topics covered by all the teachers of the course.
The time available is 2 hours.
The evaluations obtained with each individual teacher are integrated to obtain the final exam grade by means of a final weighted average
The time available is 2 hours.
The evaluations obtained with each individual teacher are integrated to obtain the final exam grade by means of a final weighted average
MED/49 - FOOD AND DIETETIC SCIENCES - University credits: 3
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 3
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 3
Practicals: 24 hours
Lessons: 24 hours
Lessons: 24 hours
Professors:
Codella Roberto, Erba Daniela, Terruzzi Ileana Marina
Professor(s)
Reception:
by appointment
LITA (Segrate)