Dietistic REPLICA ASL RIETI

At the end of the course, the student should know the basic principles of paediatric nutrition (breast-feeding, mixed feeding, formula feeding, complementary feeding in omnivourous, vegetarian and vegan families); development stages of the healthy child; origins of obesity; nutritional approach to the child with weight excess; principles of nutrition of the pregnant and breast-feeding woman, either omnivorous or vegetarian/vegan; paediatric Italian RDA (LARN). Besides, the student should be able to evaluate the nutritional intakes of children, both with normal weight and with weight excess, and to build up an adequate nutritional scheme for both kinds of children.