Summary The present paper describes a program focusing on food education and physical activity, carried out at the day centre of the 3rd Psychiatric Service of Verona. The aim was to verify the feasibility of a group intervention in order to improve the quality of lifestyles in psychiatric patients, in view of an extension of it (research protocol PHYSICO, currently in progress).

Summary The present paper describes a program focusing on food edu- cation and physical activity, carried out at the day centre of the 3rd Psychiatric Serv- ice of Verona. The aim was to verify the feasibility of a group intervention in order to im- prove the quality of lifestyles in psychiatric patients, in view of an extension of it (research protocol PHYSICO, currently in progress).