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Filter by:This project is the first stage of a health promotion campaign to shift social norms about marketing and feeding children ultra-processed foods. Embedded within a longitudinal ethnographic study using photo-elicitation techniques, mothers of preschool-age children will be randomly assigned to arts-based or traditional education about ultra-processed food.
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of a nutrition education program on preschool children's food literacy and food acceptance, and to examine the added influence of a healthy eating curriculum and parent education on children's food knowledge and healthful food choices. The project will be evaluated with 450 children ages 3 to 5 years in center-based childcare programs serving predominantly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-eligible families in Pennsylvania. Outcomes for children who receive the added healthy eating curriculum will be compared to children in classrooms that only receive the nutrition education program.
In 2020, we have entered an aging society. During the aging process, the body will decline with age, and the muscles will decrease, which will affect the swallowing muscles, causing chewing and swallowing difficulties are very common. Difficulty masticating is associated with problems with real teeth, dentures, and oral health disease, and is associated with infection, pain, inadequate nutritional intake, affected appearance, decreased quality of life, and mortality. At present, Taiwan mostly provides the elderly with shredded food, cooked soft and rotten food, or whipped food. However, when the food is mashed or shredded, the original color, fragrance, and taste of the food will be lost. It cannot change the appetite of the elderly, and it will reduce the satisfaction of the elderly's meal, and there will still be risks of insufficient food intake and uneven nutrition. Appearance or taste can improve the satisfaction and quality of life of the elderly, improve the health needs of nutrition, and allow a variety of choices when eating to change the current situation of traditional whipped food and shredded meals.It is expected that the quality of life, nutritional status, and meal satisfaction of the pre-frail elders with masticatory difficulties will be significantly higher than those of the control group if the subjects receive care meals, which can be used as a reference for the daily care of the elderly with masticatory disorders in the future.
The study will include women enrolled during the second trimester of pregnancy who will be provided with a specific amount per month for 10 months to purchase produce. Women will be provided with up to three nutrition education sessions and will be sent text message reminders to redeem their incentives every month and to provide them with nutrition tips. The study will use a co-design approach to utilize feedback from potential participants as well as participants at multiple time points in the process to improve the intervention and make it more relevant and impactful to our population.
To assess feasibility and acceptability of of integrating Food Rx and Best Feeding Practices with EFNEP participants via a pilot study.
The goal of this study is to uncover sleep and circadian mechanisms contributing to adverse metabolic health. The protocol is a 21 day (7 outpatient days, 14 inpatient days) mechanistic randomized-crossover study designed to identify the impact of chronic sleep restriction and circadian timing, independently and in combination on energy metabolism and identify the independent and combined effects on glucose tolerance.
The aim of this study is to assement of the change in consumer behaviours during the food inflation period in order to afford the dietary cost according to food security status and food choice motives. The study was planned in four stages. 1) First stage is adapting the Single-item Food Choice Questionnaire to Turkish society and to make its validity and reliability in Turkish. 2) The Impact of Food Inflation on Consumer Behavioural Change (TIF-Con) scale will be developed. 3) Observational cross-sectional data collection including these surveys will be carried out. 4) The Cost of the Recommended Diet (CoRD) will be calculated by collecting data simultaneously with the fieldwork. Hypotheses will be tested in line with the findings obtained.
The rise in chronic diseases is attributed to unhealthy eating high in sugar, salt and saturated fats, which is facilitated by the availability and consumption of these unhealthy foods. The investigators will conduct the Randomized Controlled Trial to evaluate the effect of food procurement policy on the food environment in the public facilities like schools, worksites, hospitals, correctional facilities and care homes of four municipalities of Bagmati Province, Nepal. The investigators will develop food procurement policy and get endorsed from each municipality through their legislative process. In three months, the change in the food environment after implementing the policy in public facilities of the respective municipalities will be measured.
Children living in food-insecure homes, defined as at some time during the last year their household not having enough food, money, or resources to feed the family experience low intake of fresh fruits and vegetables (FV), and a trajectory for increased risk of obesity and chronic diseases in adulthood. In Hawai'i, a higher proportion of Native Hawaiian (NH) and other Pacific Islander (OPI) children live in food-insecure households when compared with the state average (30% and 50%, respectively vs. 18%) and NHOPI adults suffer disproportionately from chronic disease. Produce prescription programs, provide vouchers to individuals to purchase fresh FV, are promising strategies to improve diet quality and reduce chronic disease risk among food insecure populations. The long-term objective of this research is to reduce nutrition-related health disparities via clinical-community based programming. The Keiki (child) Produce Prescription (KPRx) program was developed and implemented by enlisting University and community researchers and health care providers at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC). The current study builds on the community-academic partnership to achieve the following specific aim, to measure effectiveness of the KPRx on FV intake, gut microbiome composition, and health related biomarkers in 100 parent-child dyads in the context of household food insecurity from a predominantly NHOPI community in Hawai'i. A community based participatory research approach to carry out a randomized controlled trial that measures the effect of the KPRx on child diet and microbiome, and parent/caregiver diet and health-related biomarkers on 100 parent-child dyads in the context of household food insecurity will be conducted. The community-informed research study will provide data to inform local and state healthcare and nutrition assistance programming policies aimed at reducing food insecurity and health disparities among NHOPI and minority populations.