Sukalmena InAge: Nutritional-culinary Programme to Promote Adherence to a Healthy Dietary Pattern.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

56 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-05-26

Study Completion Date

2022-07-31

Brief Summary

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Currently, one of the main health challenges of public health is to improve the quality of life of people with chronic non-communicable diseases, through new strategies that promote healthy eating habits and lifestyles.

Within the new strategies that aim to promote and improve the eating habits of the population, "Sukalmena-InAge" is proposed as a tool for transforming health, where culinary skills and nutritional knowledge converge as a new paradigm to promote health. The merging of culinary knowledge and nutritional education has been coined under the term Culinary Medicine.

The present project is presented as an innovative strategy to improve dietary habits of overweight/obese people. To this end, volunteers will participate in an intervention that will be based on cooking workshops and nutritional education. In this sense, participants will receive different cooking and nutritional education sessions in order to be able to give them resources to cook in an easy, enjoyable and healthy way.

The study will evaluate the effect that this nutritional-culinary intervention programme might exert on health and will compare these results with the effects obtained providing a more traditional nutritional education.

The potential effects will be evaluated through the measurement of specific biochemical parameters related to the most prevalent chronic diseases ( insulin, glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, among others). In addition, the measurement of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in tissue will be carried out. High consumption of AGEs, could induce negative effects on health and has been correlated with the type of food consumed, but also with the culinary techniques used for their preparation.

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Detailed Description

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Lifestyle interventions are nowadays focused on promoting health and preventing chronic diseases. However, when it comes to changing lifestyle habits, and more specifically, dietary habits, the acquisition and maintenance of these modifications over time is often complex due to many factors that may affect.

There is a consensus among health professionals that, based on the available scientific evidence, a diet based on a high consumption of fruit and vegetables is inversely associated with the risk of developing chronic non-communicable diseases and, overall, with lower mortality rates. These protective effects might be in part due to certain nutrients present in the mentioned foods, namely biologically active compounds or bioactive compounds, such as mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids, fibre, phytochemicals, antioxidant vitamins, minerals, ω-3 fatty acids and plant proteins. These compounds exert antiinflammatory and antioxidant effects, thus, as part of a healthy dietary pattern, they may have the capacity to preserve healthy ageing, for instance, in relation to cognitive status.

Nevertheless, the role of culinary methods from a healthy dietary perspective should not be forgotten. During culinary processes the nutrient content can be modified, contributing not only to the loss or enhancement of beneficial nutrients such as biologically active components (CBAs), but also to the formation of compounds that might be harmful or toxic for the human organism, for example, Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs).

Taking this into consideration, this study seeks to develop a pilot study to analyse the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a nutritional-culinary programme aiming to promote long-term healthy ageing in overweight or obese adults. Volunteers participating in the intervention will receive nutritional recommendations based on a healthy dietary pattern such as Mediterranean Diet, together with a culinary training, seeking to empower them in cooking techniques and culinary capacities.

In conclusion, this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a nutritional-culinary intervention to produce beneficial effects on health parameters of overweight/obese patients and to compare the results obtained with the health effects obtained through a nutritional intervention without a culinary training.

Conditions

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Obesity Healthy Aging Cognitive Impairment

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This study uses a randomized controlled trial design with one-month intervention program and six months of follow-up in order to test the effects of a culinary intervention program to improve cooking and healthy eating behaviour in overweight and obese patients.

The culinary intervention program will be given over a one-month period, two days a week for four weeks. Participants in the control group (CG) will receive dietary training based on Mediterranean diet at the baseline visit and a leaflet explaining this dietary pattern. The participants assigned to the culinary intervention program will receive the same nutritional recommendations and eight online nutritional and cooking classes.

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Nutritional education group (NEG)

Participants in the nutritional education group will be given a leaflet with written nutrition educational information to follow a Mediterranean diet. Participants will be encouraged to adhere to this diet for one month. Four visits will be scheduled for participants assigned to this group:

(1) before randomization (T1); (2) after randomization and before the the beginning of the intervention (T2); and (3) (4) after the intervention (T3)(T4). In all time-points, questionnaires will be registered and at T2 and T4 blood samples will be collected and advanced glycation end-products will be measured.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mediterranean diet-based nutritional education intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The patients in the nutritional intervention group will receive dietary advice on how to follow a Mediterranean diet. The dietary recommendations will be given at the beginning of the study by nutritionists using comprehensive written material.

Culinary intervention group (CIG)

Participants assigned to the culinary intervention group will receive a written nutrition educational information as well as eight online nutritional and cooking classes during the one-month intervention period. Four visits will be scheduled for participants assigned to this group:

(1) before randomization (T1); (2) after randomization and before the the beginning of the intervention (T2); and (3) (4) after the intervention (T3)(T4). In all time-points, questionnaires will be registered and at T2 and T4 blood samples will be collected and advanced glycation end-products will be measured.

Participants will receive 8 culinary workshops between visit 2 and visit 3. In all time-points, questionnaires will be registered and at T2 and T4 blood samples will be collected and advanced glycation end-products will be measured.

Volunteers will be also contacted by phone after 6 months of the end of the intervention to collect information about food and culinary habits.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mediterranean diet-based culinary intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The culinary intervention will be developed integrating eight culinary and nutritional workshops that will be given every week, twice per week, during one-month intervention. The duration of each culinary and nutritional workshop will be 1 hour, thus, the program will provide a total of hours of nutritional education and a total of 8 hours of nutritional and cooking training. The courses will take place in a well-equipped kitchen from the Basque Culinary Center and participants will be connected online in order to be able to cook and practice at the same time. All cooking classes will begin with a theoretical introductory part that aim to explain the main take-home messages from the workshop. Subsequently, every class will be characterized by a hands-on part that will include the demonstration and practical preparation of different elaborations based on the use specific cooking techniques and healthy ingredients.

Interventions

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Mediterranean diet-based nutritional education intervention

The patients in the nutritional intervention group will receive dietary advice on how to follow a Mediterranean diet. The dietary recommendations will be given at the beginning of the study by nutritionists using comprehensive written material.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Mediterranean diet-based culinary intervention

The culinary intervention will be developed integrating eight culinary and nutritional workshops that will be given every week, twice per week, during one-month intervention. The duration of each culinary and nutritional workshop will be 1 hour, thus, the program will provide a total of hours of nutritional education and a total of 8 hours of nutritional and cooking training. The courses will take place in a well-equipped kitchen from the Basque Culinary Center and participants will be connected online in order to be able to cook and practice at the same time. All cooking classes will begin with a theoretical introductory part that aim to explain the main take-home messages from the workshop. Subsequently, every class will be characterized by a hands-on part that will include the demonstration and practical preparation of different elaborations based on the use specific cooking techniques and healthy ingredients.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Overweight or obesity (BMI between 25 and 35 kg/m2)
* Low score in the screening questionaire "Homecooking Quality Index" (HQI)

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnant or lactating women.
* Serious medical condition precluding dietary intervention or limiting survival to less than one year.
* Illicit drug use, chronic alcoholism.
* Participation in any clinical trial with drugs or dietary intervention during the year prior to inclusion.
* Weight loss intervention (surgical treatment, dietary or pharmacological treatment) during the last year
* Difficulty or major drawbacks to change dietary habits and follow Mediterranean diet (allergies, intolerances).

Minimum Eligible Age

55 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No