Lipodrome: a board game as an educational tool to improve understanding of lipids

It has a continuous track (“a lipodrome”) with a start and finish line, so players can do a single circuit or multiple circuits (to be agreed before the start of the game). Players take turns and if they land on a blue circle, they take a card from the stack and follow the instructions to move forwards, backwards or stay put. The movement relates to whether the card says they have made a beneficial lifestyle or dietary action or choice.

There are 52 cards covering a range of topics. The Lipodrome leaflet summarizes some of the key lifestyle and dietary messages. A main point is that no lipid, lifestyle or dietary choice or action is intrinsically bad, but must be set in context of the other activities so that a healthy balance is achieved.

For example, an athlete under vigorous training or a person with a very physically active job will need higher dietary intake and different nutrient balance to someone with a desk job and generally sedentary lifestyle. NOTE (as Mendeley Data does not recognize company affiliations): Dr Sara Tortorella currently has a position as chemistry teacher at the Ministero dell'Istruzione e del Merito (mim.gov.it/web/guest/) but during EpiLipidNET was based at Molecular Horizon srl (molhorizon.it/) Dr Olga Vvedenskaya is currently based at Lipotype (lipotype.com/)