Culinary Medicine to Enhance Protein Intake on Muscle Quality in Older Adults
- Conditions
- Sarcopenia
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Culinary MedicineBehavioral: Control
- Registration Number
- NCT05593978
- Lead Sponsor
- Texas Tech University
- Brief Summary
Aging is associated with a decline in muscle mass, strength, and physical function, leading to muscle mass loss and weakness. These concerns can impact an individual's functional independence and quality of life (QOL). Dietary protein stimulates muscle protein growth. Current studies suggest that optimal protein intake for older adults is greater than the Recommended Dietary Allowance. Barriers to consuming protein-rich foods in older adults include reductions in taste and smell, dentition, dexterity, and changes in living situation. Therefore, nutritional interventions are needed to effectively improve eating behaviors, diet quality, and stimulate muscle growth and strength. These interventions will help prevent, manage, and promote muscle mass loss recovery. Older adults may not be aware of their changing nutrient needs and therefore may lack the skills to prepare nutritionally adequate foods properly. Cooking demonstrations, or culinary medicine (CM), can help teach healthy cooking to reduce potential red meat consumption barriers and improve community-dwelling older adults' dietary habits. Thus, CM can be a novel strategy to improve diet quality in older adults and promote and augment at-home cooking. CM is an evidenced-base field that combines skills of preparing, cooking, and presenting food with the science of medicine. This field can help to accomplish potential eating behaviors and health outcome improvements. A tailored CM program can be an effective strategy that could reduce barriers in protein intake that will enable older adults to age well and productively.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 56
- 65 years and older
- physically active
- able to cook for oneself
- willing to complete two blood draws
- <65 years old
- sedentary lifestyle
- bleeding disorder
- heart pacemaker
- type 1 diabetics and type 2 diabetics taking insulin
- current smokers
- amputees
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Culinary Medicine Culinary Medicine Those in this group will receive culinary medicine, which includes cooking videos and educational videos to help educate on ways to increase protein intake through lean ground beef. Control Control This group will only receive recipes containing lean ground beef to help increase protein intake.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) Baseline and change from baseline muscle mass and fat mass at 4 months DXA will measure full body muscle mass and fat mass in grams.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Weight in lbs Baseline and change from baseline weight at 4 months Weight will be measure to the nearest 0.1 lbs
Height in inches Baseline Height will be measured to the nearest 0.1 in using a stadiometer.
Grip strength Baseline and change from baseline grip strength at 4 months Grip strength will be measured by a handheld dynamometer. The subject will be asked to used the handheld dynamometer three times for each to obtain the average of the three test results.
Protein questionnaire Baseline and through study completion, an average of 4 months The subject will fill out an online modified version of the rapid self-administered dietary protein food frequency questionnaire. This questionnaire contains 20-items evaluating the weekly intake of different types of meat, dairy, eggs, beans to provide the weekly protein intake in grams.
Steps through study completion, an average of 4 months Subjects will be provided a Garmin Vivofit 4 watch to monitor their steps throughout the study
Physical activity questionnaire Baseline and change from baseline CHAMPS at 4 months Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) is 41-items that assess the weekly frequency and duration of various physical activities typically undertaken by older adults. Each question ask how many times a week the participant partake in the activity then ask how many total hours a week the participant did the activity. The frequency per week of all exercise-related activities were calculated by the sum frequency scores/week for each of the activities. The higher the score, the better the outcome
Cooking Effectiveness Questionnaire Baseline and through study completion, an average of 4 months Questionnaire to record effectiveness of culinary medicine cooking videos based on a scale of from "completely confident" to "not confident at all"
Body mass index in kg/m^2 Baseline and change from baseline BMI at 4 months Weight in kg and height in meters will be used to calculate BMI
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Texas Tech University
🇺🇸Lubbock, Texas, United States