NCT05593978

Culinary Medicine to Enhance Protein Intake on Muscle Quality in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Tech University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Culinary Medicine	The CM-group will receive weekly cooking demonstrations and education videos via electronic links for 16 weeks, and three nutrition education based on the content of the Nutrition Care Manual from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to show age-appropriate recipes with correct preparation methods and different cooking methods for lean ground red meat to increase protein consumption.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The CN-group will receive weekly recipes via electronic links without the culinary medicine intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-04
• Completion: 2023-01-31
• First posted: 2022-10-26
• Last updated: 2023-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States