Dietetics and
Nutrition

We nourish the body

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.

Properly feeding our body is essential for living well.

A correct and balanced food plan is the starting point for obtaining many results: preventing and / or treating a disease, achieving the desired aesthetic shape, obtaining a certain body composition, or sports performance.
It is a complex subject that Nutrizione Prevenzione deals exclusively with a medical-scientific approach.

Lose weight with balance

Too many profiteers are now riding the wave of fashion in the nutrition sector, improvising themselves as experts and promising miraculous slimming diets.
Our food plans do not include magic potions, the use of substitute meals or food supplements.

With us people learn to feed themselves and naturally with common foods.
It is possible to reach the desired weight without effort: one step at a time, with gradual, controlled, progressive and definitive results.

Together with people, we define the best strategy to pursue, considering their needs and taking into account that eating must remain a pleasure, even for those who follow a diet.

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We work with people who wish to:

  • prevent or treat certain physical or psychological conditions
  • achieve their desired aesthetic goals
  • reach a specific body composition
  • improve sports performance
  • improve their health and psychophysical wellbeing
  • maintain a healthy lifestyle
  • lose or gain weight in a healthy way
  • relieve menopausal symptoms
  • receive nutritional support during pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • manage food allergies and intolerances
  • follow a vegan or vegetarian diet
  • follow pre- and post-operative dietary regimens
  • teach children to eat in a healthy and balanced way

We are available to schools, companies, sports clubs, charities and trade associations to run seminars and training courses on specific topics. We can accommodate up to 40 people.

During the first appointment, a thorough medical examination is carried out and a detailed medical history is taken: we talk with the patient about their history, habits, any illnesses and medications, allergies and intolerances, wishes and expectations.
We then explore the patient's willingness to change certain habits. The personalised nutritional profile is delivered within one week, while any follow-up visits, if needed, are arranged with the healthcare team.

Our dietary plans, while personalised, are inspired by the principles of the Mediterranean Diet, which is scientifically proven to be not only a healthy eating model but also a complete and balanced lifestyle.

Our dietary plans do not include the use of meal replacements or food supplements, unless there is a proven need.

The medical visit includes a first aesthetic medicine consultation.

There are now too many opportunists riding the wave of nutrition trends, improvising themselves as experts.
The subject is complex and requires specialist study: it is above all an ethical matter towards patients.

Nutrizione Prevenzione is the right choice because:

  • we work exclusively according to the principles of evidence-based medicine
  • our dietary plans do not include meal replacements or food supplements, except in special cases (competitive sport, severe deficiency states). With us, people learn to eat independently and naturally
  • the patient's nutritional needs are also analysed from other perspectives: medical, psychological, physiotherapeutic, aesthetic and athletic. A team of doctors and healthcare professionals specialised in various disciplines consults and cooperates to offer the best multifunctional solution for each need

Nutrition and Dietetics Services

We build personalized food plans based on the needs and objectives shared with the individual, inspired by the principles of medical scientific evidence. To date, scientific evidence shows that only the Mediterranean and vegetarian diets are useful in achieving and maintaining a state of health.

Perché perdere peso?

In this particularly delicate phase of life, physical, nervous and psychic development is fundamental. We must provide children and young people with the "right building blocks" to help them grow up healthy and to make them acquire correct eating habits that will accompany them throughout their lives.

Nutrizione nell’età dello sviluppo

We treat various metabolic diseases, with particular attention to obesity and diabetes mellitus. Scrupulous care is also reserved for food allergies, for which we formulate diagnoses only after a thorough food history and adequate laboratory analysis.

Allergie ed intolleranze alimentari

We define personalized nutritional programs for athletes, even of the highest level, based on: objectives to be achieved, personal characteristics of the athlete, physical activity performed, timing, intensity and duration of training, metabolic state. It is known that proper nutrition improves performance and optimizes recovery times.

L’alimentazione nello sport

Medical Staff

Dr. Valentina Ventura

  • Surgeon

  • Master of science degree in nutrition

Dr. Valentina Ventura combines her degree in Medicine and Surgery with a second master's degree in Nutritional Sciences and expertise in non-surgical aesthetic medicine.

She is distinguished by her commitment to building trusting relationships with patients, based on accurate information and respect for scientific evidence.

As a Medical Doctor, she can make diagnoses, prescribe medications (including for weight reduction/management), and perform non-surgical aesthetic medicine treatments.

She coordinates the Dietology Team of Nutrizione Prevenzione Centro di Medicina Integrata, of which she is Medical Director, and the Beauty Medical Team of Aesteticamed, of which she is a founding partner.

In the context of the nutritional medical visit, Dr. Valentina Ventura can:

  • inform and prescribe the new weight loss medications for non-diabetic patients such as SAXENDA®, WEGOVY®, MOUNJARO®
  • offer a free Aesthetic Medicine consultation (weight loss, localized fat reduction, cellulite, facial aesthetics...)
  • perform blood draws for laboratory tests
  • carry out Breath Tests for Lactose Intolerance or Helicobacter Pylori
  • involve the medical team (Allergologists, Psychologists, Diabetologists, Endocrinologists, Dermatologists, Gynaecologists, Beauty specialists, etc.) for the management of more complex issues, such as Eating Behaviour Disorders

Approach to the patient
  • thorough medical examination and detailed medical history
  • discussion of the patient's willingness to change certain habits
  • assessment of nutritional needs (BIA DS MEDICA body composition analysis)
  • free Aesthetic Medicine consultation
  • free meeting with a psychotherapist or child psychologist
  • written clinical report addressed to the patient's GP
  • personalised nutritional profile delivered within 7 days
  • no meal replacements, supplements or useless tests unless strictly necessary
  • Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Udine
  • Master's Degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Florence
  • Registered with the Medical Doctors' Board of Pordenone no. 1749

Dr. Dora Colussi

  • Medical Doctor specialized in Gastroenterology (digestive system diseases and digestive endoscopy)

Her training focused primarily on the prevention of colorectal cancer, for which she also carried out a research period abroad at Harvard University in Boston. She subsequently developed expertise in the field of nutrition and dietetics.

  • Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Bologna
  • Specialist Diploma in Digestive System Diseases from the University of Bologna

Dr. Valentina Polita

  • Nutritionist biologist

  • Master of science degree in nutrition

Dr. Valentina Polita graduated in Biology from the University of Padua, deepening her study of anthocyanins — pigments that give fruit and vegetables their characteristic colour — with particular attention to their antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral activity and their role as protective factors in tumour and cardiovascular diseases.

She subsequently enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, Nutritional Sciences, at the University of Florence, where she developed a thesis deepening studies on the treatment of arterial hypertension through Mediterranean Diet-inspired lifestyles, experimenting with new educational and outreach methodologies.

  • Degree in Biology from the University of Padua
  • Master's Degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Florence
  • Registered with the Biologists' Board, registration no. Tri_A2655

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Dr. Giulia Ganis

  • Master of science degree in nutrition

Dr. Ganis graduated in Food Science and Technology from the University of Udine, focusing on dietary habits in developmental age and adolescence, then continued her studies obtaining a Master's Degree in Nutritional Sciences and deepening the topics of vegetarian and vegan diets.

  • Degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of Udine
  • Master's Degree in Human Nutritional Sciences from the University of Pisa

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Dr.ssa Martina Masat

  • Nutritionist Biologist and Master's Degree in Human Nutrition Sciences

Dr. Masat graduated in Biological Sciences and Technologies from the University of Trieste, examining the role of diet in polycystic ovary syndrome. She continued her studies in Pisa, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Human Nutritional Sciences with an experimental thesis on the effectiveness of nutritional education in the workplace for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

She has been collaborating with the Nutrizione Prevenzione Medical Center since 2024.

Elvira Tot

  • Professional Nurse

An experienced nurse in the out-of-hospital emergency and urgent care setting, she has been collaborating with us since 2018.

  • Specialist studies in Nursing Medicine
  • Certificate of registration with the Nursing Board