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Filter by:This pilot study will provide a theory-based low-cost and easy-to-operate program in the area of healthy lifestyle promotion among community dwelling older adults. The blended intervention product will be helpful for health professionals, social workers and practitioners working in the elderly centers and health centers to promote older adults' PA, healthy diet and wellness. Furthermore, this study would initiate advocacy for policymakers to disseminate cost-saving, time-efficient and effective healthy lifestyle programs to the communities for healthy aging promotion.
Mobile food markets have been proposed as a strategy for mitigating health disparities related to poor nutrition and diet/weight-related health conditions because they bring low-cost, healthy food directly to underserved populations. Full-service mobile markets may improve multiple aspects of the diet by providing foods to meet all dietary needs through a convenient one-stop shop. The full-service mobile market to be tested (Twin Cities Mobile Market) sells nutritious and staple foods from a bus that regularly visits low-income neighborhoods. Foods are sold at prices ~10% below those of grocery stores. SNAP/EBT is accepted, and a state-funded fruit/vegetable incentive program (Market Bucks) is available to shoppers. Working in partnership with our community team members, we will enroll 12 total sites and recruit 22 participants per site (N=264). We will collect baseline data and randomize sites to either receive the full-service mobile market intervention or serve as the waitlist control. We will then implement the full-service mobile market at intervention sites, follow participants for 6 months, and collect follow-up data. After follow-up data collection, waitlist control sites will receive the full-service mobile market intervention. Diet quality will be assessed through dietary recall interviews, food insecurity will be assessed by survey, and fruit and vegetable purchases will be measured by collecting one month of food purchase tracking forms at baseline and follow-up data collection. Analyses will determine whether the full-service mobile market changes diet quality, food security, and food purchasing outcomes.
The goal of this study is to test the effect of informational and emotional social support (via nutrition education, mental health support, and/or baking classes) through two different communication modalities (online vs. mixed mode / hybrid) on physical and mental health outcomes Our research questions are the following. 1. Does an online social support program that provides informational and emotional support improve diet, anthropometry, and mental health? 2. Does a mixed-mode social support program that provides informational, emotional support through both online and face-to-face mode improve diet, anthropometry, and mental health? 3. Is a mixed mode social support program more effective in improving outcomes? Does meeting the group members face-to-face change the dynamics of online communication? If yes, what are the mechanisms? Are there differences in the following outcomes by communication modality? 1. Online bonding 2. Group identity 3. Quality of relationship
The goal of this intervention study is to analyse the microbiota composition after the water kefir consumption. The main questions are to evaluate the potential probiotic drink can have beneficial effect on the gut microbiota. Participants will consume the water kefir for two weeks and microbiota will be analysed. Researchers will compare the microbiota composition before and after consumption.
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, alongside its associated comorbidities including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. Effective weight management strategies are thus paramount to improve the population´s health. One of the key causes of obesity lies in excessive energy consumption derived from eating too large portions of food. In this context, practical tools to control portion size represent a promising, cost-effective strategy. This study will investigate whether using an optimized portion-control toolkit to consume a meal under controlled laboratory conditions has a positive effect on the nutritional quality of the meal as well as any benefits in physiological, cognitive, affective and behavioural outcomes. The study will involve 40 volunteers with overweight or obesity who will attend two lunch sessions at the Center for Nutrition Research of the University of Navarra (Spain) on two different days. At each session, participants will be invited to self-serve and eat a lunch from a cold buffet. On day one, participants will self-serve and season their food using control tools (conventional kitchen serving spoons and oil dispenser). On day two, participants will self-serve the same foods as on day one but using experimental tools (calibrated portion-control serving spoons and calibrated oil dispenser). A set of cognitive tests will be completed before, during and after the meal. Conventional and experimental tools will be compared in terms of the following variables: meal portion size and energy density, cognitive effort while serving food, cephalic and intestinal satiety responses, appetite sensations, energy adjustment post-meal, awareness of the quantities of the previously consumed foods and recalibration of portion size norms. Additionally, the study will explore acceptance for and intention to use the optimized portion control toolkit, as well as intention to change eating habits. It is expected that the findings from this study will shed light into the cognitive and physiological processes associated with portion control. It may also help to explain individual variations in the responses to obesogenic environments, which will hopefully lead to improved personalized interventions.
This study will examine the impact of the seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) extract on blood glucose levels after a sugary drink in healthy subjects. The aim of this study is to investigate if the seaweed extract, when consumed with the sucrose, can lower blood glucose levels, compared to the raise after sucrose only, in healthy volunteers. The study is designed as an acute, double-blind, randomised, controlled crossover trial in 16 healthy subjects. Participants will be asked to consume sucrose solution or sucrose solution with added seaweed extract.The effects on blood glucose levels will be determined over 2 hours after the consumption.
This study will focus on acute effects of added sugars on brain health in a specific age group (30-64 years old). We will provide participants two meals (one meal containing 16 g of added sugars and the other containing 61 g of added sugars) and examine blood vessel function and brain structure using a MRI.
This study proposed an integrated multi-disciplinary approach including a professional and convenient body composition measurement and an immediate counselling after the measurement, followed by 6-month smart-phone based individualized counselling. We believe that this approach will promote healthy eating behaviors and weight management among middle-aged Chinese in Hong Kong.
To prove the effectiveness of complex wellness programs in terms of maintaining active longevity, including motivational counseling, high-intensity training, intermittent fasting, hypoxic training, as well as practices for achieving healthy sleep and mental well-being. Clinical-instrumental, single-centre, prospective, open-label, non-randomized, sequential enrollment study with blinded endpoint analysis
The purpose of this study is to assess the metabolic effects of plant based diet on healthy young adults.