The opera prevention project

Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2021 Feb;72(1):1-3. doi: 10.1080/09637486.2020.1765152. Epub 2020 May 13.

Abstract

The OPERA (Obesity, Programmes of nutrition, Education, Research and Assessment of the best treatment) PREVENTION PROJECT was a campaign of prevention of obesity that was held on October 11th-13th 2019 in Naples. The project was based on the organization of a medical, athletic, tasting and psychological path with the following objectives: 1) Providing a free medical examination to subjects with obesity; 2) providing athletic advices to perform physical activity; 3) performing a show-cooking in order to teach subjects with obesity to cook healthy food; 4) providing a gustatory and olfactory sensitivity assessment; 4) providing a psychological examination through questionnaires to evaluate obstacles to start a weight loss programme and to psycologically support subjects with obesity on a virtual journey made through a reshaping software programme. In conclusion the OPERA PREVENTION PROJECT could represent a health promotion intervention reproducible in all the countries having high rates of subjects with obesity and overweight.

Keywords: Obesity; lifestyle; nutrition; physical activity; prevention.

MeSH terms

  • Cooking
  • Diet, Healthy
  • Exercise
  • Female
  • Health Promotion*
  • Humans
  • Life Style
  • Male
  • Obesity / prevention & control*
  • Overweight / prevention & control*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Taste
  • Weight Loss