Effectiveness Between Nutritional Counseling Monthly Phone Call Versus Self Help Informative Booklet
Effectiveness Between Nutritional Counseling Monthly Phone Call Versus Self Help Informative Booklet
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the most effectiveness between a personalized
 nutritional program with a counseling monthly phone call Versus personalized nutritional
 program with self help Informative Booklet in a group of obesity or overweight patients
 without counseling phone call.
Evaluate the best effectiveness between two methods applied in the Dietary Service of
 institute orthopedic Rizzoli for the achievement of the weight loss. Personalized nutritional
 program with counseling phone call versus personalized nutritional program with self help
 Informative Booklet in a controlled group.There will be compared two groups of patients:
 First group: patients subject to balanced personalized nutritional program associated to
 counseling monthly phone call ; compliance and loss of weight will be done monthly for one
 year. Second group: patients subject to balanced personalized nutritional program associated
 to self help informative Booklet; compliance and loss of weight will be done after six months
 and after one year from the first meeting.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Female and male

 -  BMI >25 and <35

 -  Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years old to 75 years old

 -  Patients of the Institute Orthopedic Rizzoli subject to personalized nutritional
 program admitted to the wards and patients attending the clinic of Anaesthesiology,
 analgesic therapy, Rheumatology

 -  participants gave informed consent

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Patients with psychiatric disorders (depression, bulimia, anorexia

 -  Concomitant use of medicines or food supplements that can alter the weight loss.

 -  Patients with inclusion criteria that have not signed the informative report and the
 declaration of consent.