Nutritional Requirement During Lifetime and Pathological Aspects of Nutrition

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and competences on nutritional needs of human beings, focusing also on the pathological aspects resulting from over-or under-feeding.
The unit of Nutritional needs will provide students with most and actual notions on nutrition and bioenergetic, also focusing on the description of the most important macro- and micronutrients. The nutritional needs at different life stages (from fetal to aging) will be faced, considering also some particular physiopathological conditions and sport.
The unit of Pathology will provide knowledge on metabolic biomarkers and pathologies, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, eating disorders and bone metabolism. The emerging role of gut microbiota will be also discussed.

At the end of the teaching the student must demonstrate that she/he has acquired knowledge on nutrition physiology, as well as on bioenergetic and nutritional aspects of macro and micronutrients. This knowledge must be placed considering the different phases of human life, from fetal to the elderly. The student will develop a critical approach to the nutritional aspects, demonstrating a solid competence, which can resolve the information based on a solid scientific basis from those, sometimes unfounded, but widely spread out.
At the end of the teaching the student must demonstrate a solid knowledge on metabolic pathologies and eating disorders.