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Filter by:This study evaluates the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).
This study aims to investigate whether protein fortification of foods and beverages causes mouthdrying and mucoadhesion and whether this is influenced by age and saliva flow.
In efforts to promote a healthy diet, the Singapore Health Promotion Board (HPB) has attempted to use Front-of-Pack (FOP) labelling to supplement traditional nutrition labelling. The Healthier Choice Symbol (HCS) identifies food items within a specific category of foods as healthier choices. The original logos were enhanced to include additional information focusing on particular macronutrients, taking one of two themes; it either indicates that a product contains more of a healthier ingredient, or less of a less healthy ingredient. However, there is a lack of scientific evidence on the role of the existing symbols in assisting consumers make healthier food purchasing decisions. Thus far, studies have established that the United Kingdom's Multiple Traffic Lights (MTL) label, and the new French Nutri-Score (NS) label, are amongst the top performers. However, there is little consensus on which is the most effective FOP label to promote diet quality. Thus, the investigators propose to conduct the following: Use a three arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) and an experimental fully functional web-based grocery store to test two competing approaches of front-of-pack (FOP) labelling on measures of diet quality: 1) United Kingdom's Multiple Traffic Lights label (MTL) or 2) France's Nutri-Score (NS) labelling scheme. The investigators hypothesize that diet quality as measured by the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010) (primary outcome) will be highest in the NS arm, followed by MTL, and lowest in the no logo control arm.
The present study aims to investigate the effect of fat level and fat type of a snack on self-reported satiety and associated biomarkers. The relevant individual differences will also be investigated.
The aim of this cluster randomized control trial is to test the efficacy of providing experience of a target novel vegetable within the context of an interactive story time to increase intake of the target novel vegetable in preschool aged children (aged 2-5 years).
High cognitive load activities can influence energy intake from food. It is unknown how restaurant menu designs may affect patrons in terms of cognitive demand and subsequent ordering of food.Objective: Our objective was to develop and experimentally test menu designs that differ in cognitive load to test the subjective and objective stress measures on food ordering.
Study into the endocannabinoid response to consuming a palatable versus a neutral food.
The aim of this cluster randomised control trial is to test the efficacy of a repeated taste exposure intervention, a nutritional educational intervention and combination of both to increase intake of an unfamiliar vegetable in preschool aged children (aged 3-5 years).
This study will examine differences in habituation to foods high in sugar and fat content versus those that are not, in normal weight women.
The purpose of the Traditions study was to examine the influence of cultural immersion on willingness to try fruits and vegetables among children, 3-12 y, in Guam. The primary objective of this study was to examine willingness to try fruits and vegetables and fruit and vegetable intake among children attending three existing summer camp programs: a cultural immersion camp, a university day camp, and a recreational sports camp. The primary hypothesis was that children attending the cultural immersion camp would have higher willingness to try fruits and vegetables (WillTry score) and a higher intake of fruits and vegetables compared to children attending both, the university day camp and recreational sports camp, without cultural immersion. A pre-post, quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate 3 summer camps with different exposure levels of cultural immersion. High, moderate, and zero (cultural) exposure was provided by a cultural immersion camp (CIC), a university-based day camp (UDC), and a recreational sports camp (RSC), respectively. CIC delivered 4 culturally adapted nutrition lessons within the context of Chamorro cultural traditions as part of the cultural immersion camp activities. The UDC delivered the same lessons within a physiology framework. The RSC was without nutrition lessons and cultural immersion. Children 3-12 years old registered in any of the three summer camp programs were eligible to participate. Data collection was primarily administered at two assessment periods: before (± 2 weeks) and after (± 1 week) each summer camp program. Children's willingness to try fruits and vegetables, the primary outcome, was assessed with the interview-administered Adapted WillTry tool. The secondary outcome was fruit and vegetable intake as servings/day in the CIC to UDC only. Fruit and vegetable intake was assessed using the mobile food record (mFR), which is an app running on an iPod Touch based on the technology assisted dietary assessment (TADA) protocols. Outcomes examined Adapted WillTry post-scores for local novel and local common fruits and vegetables and fruit and vegetable servings/day using multivariate regression models adjusting for the relevant pre-score, sex, age, ethnicity, dose, BMI percentile, and parent's cultural affiliation. Therefore, additional measures like sociodemographic information, anthropometry (i.e. heights and weights), and parent's cultural affiliation were collected to account for potential confounders.