Sustainable Practices and Methods Aimed at Preventing Obesity among Young Adults: Piloting a New Curriculum
Kratka vsebina
Poor diet and physical inactivity directly affect millions of people. Up to 7% of EU health budgets are spent yearly on diseases linked to obesity with still approximately 2.8 million deaths per year from causes associated with overweight and obesity. Within higher education study programs, students are rarely offered any curricula or didactic materials on problems associated with obesity and overweight. The EDU-FIT: INCLUSIVE SOCIAL EDUCATION FIT FOR HEALTHY LIFE-STYLE - PREVENTING OBESITY IN YOUNG ADULTS project is a collaborative effort involving partners from five countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia, and Norway. EDU-FIT intends to enhance student well-being through accessible and sustainable online resources aimed at raising awareness about the importance of developing healthy lifestyle habits and creating sustainable methods and practices to prevent obesity. The project’s outcome is a curriculum for an elective course which will be offered at the University of Maribor. A part of the didactic material is an interactive multilingual digital handbook which will be used as a guide for developing healthy lifestyle habits and preventing obesity among students. This chapter focuses on the methodology and results of the piloting and implementation of the curriculum on an active lifestyle and overweight prevention while studying. A part of the research refers to a self-reflective journal which students completed during the pilot course, and the importance of appropriate, sensitive communication among young adults in the field of obesity.






