Cus Trieste sets out to raise awareness on the issue of eating disorders

The cycle of three meetings, in which  Cus Trieste collaborates with the ‘Food for Mind Trieste Centre’, continues on Thursday 20 February in the University of Trieste with the appointment entitled ‘Food and nutrition disorders: what are they and what are the signs to prevent them?’

Information and dialogue, in the company of experts in the field, on a very delicate and topical issue, which is still too often not tackled seriously and correctly. This was the basis for the idea of Cus Trieste, with the fundamental support of FederCUSI and the collaboration of the Food for Mind Trieste Centre, to propose a cycle of three meetings dedicated to Eating Disorders. The next meeting, entitled ‘Food and Nutrition Disorders: what are they and what are the signs to prevent them?’ will be held on Thursday 20 February 2025 at 5 p.m. in the Great Hall of Building C6 of the University of Trieste, in via Alfonso Valerio n.8/3. Donatella De Colle, psychologist and psychotherapist as well as coordinator of the Food for Mind Trieste Centre, will speak at the meeting, which is open to all (no registration is required to attend).

THE GENERAL PROJECT: The series of meetings, organised by CUS Trieste with the support of the Food for Mind Trieste Centre, is part of the initiatives of the ‘Inclusion and Sport Wellbeing’ project implemented by CUS Trieste with the support of the Italian Federation of University Sport (FederCUSI). The project was created with the aim of fostering social integration and promoting healthy lifestyles through inclusive sports activities and in-depth discussions dedicated to health and accessibility.

‘Nutrition,’ says Cus Trieste President Michele Pipan, ‘is a delicate topic that is becoming increasingly important in our society, even more so with the aftermath of the pandemic period. As a Cus, we have a duty to spread sporting activity and, at the same time, good practices to promote the physical and psychological well-being of our students. Informative meetings, run by renowned professionals, such as this one are essential so that everyone realises that we can and must talk about it, and that it is not wrong to admit that it is difficult to find a balance in an increasingly turbulent everyday life, where a healthy and regular diet can and must be a positive certainty from which to start’.

‘We will start by recounting and debunking the long list of false myths connected with eating disorders and which are the basis of the process of minimising the problem,’ explains Donatella De Colle, ’then we will analyse the situations in which a person can or cannot manage the problem on their own, and we will sort out the types of eating disorders and how they affect gender (male or female) and age groups. The afternoon will end with a kind of vademecum of what people close to the person with the disorder can do and say to best manage the situation. This last aspect, which if developed leads to the collection of the critical aspects of the specific eating disorder, is linked to the indicators and parameters to be observed so that the difficulty does not turn into something chronic'.

The third and last appointment, entitled ‘Male eating disorders also in the sporting context’, will take place on Thursday 20 March 2025 at 5 p.m. in the Great Hall of Building C6 of the University of Trieste, via Alfonso Valerio n. 8/3. Speakers will be Marco Folla, psychologist and psychotherapist, and Victoria Bertucci, nutritionist biologist.

Contact: cus@units.it