Section I Physiology of nutritional status and metabolism: dietary recommended allowances.- hormonal regulation of food intake.- circadian clock and nutritional metabolism .- hormonal aspects of lipid metabolism .- hormonal aspects of protein metabolism.- weight and body composition regulation.- adipose tissue (endocrinological aspects.- muscular tissue (endocrinological aspects).

- bone metabolism (endocrinological aspects).- regulation of the cross-talk between adipose tissue, muscle and bone.- metabolic and endocrinological aspects of gut microbiota.- Section II Endocrine aspects of malnutrition: epidemiology of malnutrition (over and under nutrition).- starvation and refeeding.- malnutrition (under-nutrition).- obesity.- diabetes.

- senile anorexia.- eating disorders.- cachexia.- sarcopenia.- sarcopenic obesity.- nutrition and pancreatic diseases.- nutrition and thyroid.- stunting and growth factors.