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Filter by:Over 35,000 Canadians, 65% of men and 72% of women aged 31-50 years fail to consume the recommended number of milk and milk product servings (≤2 servings per day). Given the wide range of health benefits associated with increased dietary intake of milk and milk products the objectives of this study were to conduct a prospective, 5-arm randomised controlled trial in order to test the effectiveness of a variety of messages for increasing milk and milk product consumption in men and women aged 30-50 years old. The five arms consisted of 4 messages that contained slightly different content specifically: 1) gain-framed message condition, 2) loss-framed message condition, 3) self-regulatory efficacy-enhancing message condition, 4) gain-framed and self-regulatory efficacy-enhancing message condition and 5) loss-framed plus self-regulatory efficacy-enhancing message condition. It was hypothesised that those who receive self-regulatory efficacy-enhancing information would consume more dairy than those who received messages without such information. Second, those who received gain-framed messages would consume more dairy as compared to those who received loss-framed messages. Third, those who received gain-framed messages that include self-regulatory efficacy-enhancing information would consume the most dairy in comparison to the other four conditions.
Good nutrition is necessary for optimal growth and development in young children. Nutrition risk screening can identify those at risk and to refer them for assessment and treatment. The NutriSTEP® (Nutrition Risk Screening for Every Preschooler) questionnaires are 17-item, community-based, parent-administered questionnaires for identifying nutritional risk in toddlers (18-35 months) and preschoolers (3-5 years). Internet versions are available on the Dietitians of Canada website as part of a Nutri-eSTEP online tool. NutriSTEP® is mandated for use in Ontario and New Brunswick and is also used in other provinces. NutriSTEP® has been implemented in Canadian jurisdictions and in research settings. Many health care practitioners, mainly registered dietitians, and policy makers, are asking for evidence that NutriSTEP® makes a difference and this project is proposed to show that nutrition screening with NutriSTEP® with its accompanying nutrition education resources will increase knowledge and change nutrition-related practices by parents of preschoolers. This research will be a randomized control trial with more than 150 parents/caregivers of toddlers and preschoolers. The treatment group will receive screening with the Nutri-eSTEP version of NutriSTEP® and will receive the accompanying nutrition education messages and links to resources. A control group will receive the screening treatment at the end of a 12 week intervention. At the beginning and end of the 12 week period, parents/caregivers will fill out questionnaires on parental nutrition knowledge and nutrition-related behaviour (including attitudes and intentions). This will be the first study of nutrition risk screening with NutriSTEP® to determine if the screening process, along with its accompanying nutrition education messages makes a difference.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether exposure to nutrition information with or without nutrition education would influence college students' dietary choices and improved the previous photographs-based dietary assessment tools.
The purpose of the proposed research study is to assess the effects of including greater amounts of minimally processed red meat (lean pork and beef) into a Mediterranean Diet on cardiometabolic and emotional well-being.
The capacity to burn fat as fuel for exercise may have important implications for sporting performance, with dietary fat intake positively influencing this ability. Endurance performance and the ability to burn fat will be measured in women runners following the consumption of 3 diets varying in the amount of fat and carbohydrate.
This multi-center, prospective, randomized comparative effectiveness intervention study will evaluate continuous feeding (CGF) and bolus gastric feeding (BGF) protocols and their effect on delivery of prescribed nutrition and feeding intolerance in mechanically ventilated critically ill children for up through 12 hours post achievement goal feeds or exclusion from feeding protocol, whichever comes first, to a maximum of 10 days.
The aim is compare and correlate skeletal muscle and erythrocytes fatty acids (FAs) profiles in adult healthy human after caloric restriction and acute exercise in order to validate erythrocyte FAs profile as marker of changes in muscle fatty acid composition.
Pediatric heart transplant patients have a high-risk cardiovascular profile affecting their long-term outcomes and survival. Currently, no effective cardiovascular preventative care is provided for this pediatric population, in part, due to the fact that clinic-based programs are not easily accessible to children and their families. However, tele-health has been show to improve medical outcomes by making care more accessible to these patients. This study aims to meet the urgent need for an effective and sustainable delivery of preventative care to pediatric heart transplant patients using a diet and exercise intervention program delivered live over the internet direct to these patients' homes.
This study will be conducted using standardized techniques to collect blood samples via an acute, randomized, cross-over design. Subjects will be provided all of their meals the day prior to testing and participate in 3 testing days with a minimum of 1 week break between testing days and a maximum time commitment of 7 weeks. A trained phlebotomist will place a catheter and collect blood samples from an antecubital vein using sterile techniques.
A randomized clinical trial comparing the effect on weight reduction and cardiometabolic risk factors of intermittent energy restriction and a isocaloric continuous energy restriction in obese subjects.