Personalized Nutrition Advice for Optimizing Dietary Habits and Metabolic Status

Summary

The alteration maintained over time of some metabolic processes, such as oxidative stress, low-grade inflammation, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, and of the intestinal microbiota activity, can induce some chronic diseases with high prevalence in society, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease or diabetes. These metabolic alterations can be modulated through nutrition and eating habits. Thus nutritional interventions are currently considered as a main tool for disease prevention.

The need to adapt nutritional interventions to the particular needs of each person in order to improve the health status of all individuals is becoming more and more evident, through precision nutrition. On the other hand, for nutritional interventions to be carried out over long periods of time and to achieve sustainable long-term changes in lifestyle, new forms of behavioral counseling are necessary to facilitate the follow-up of nutritional interventions.

PREVENTOMICS is a European project that arose to develop a personalized nutrition system, the PREVENTOMICS system. This system is based on the classification of the users of the system according to the state of their own metabolic processes, their genotype, their dietary habits and preferences, levels of physical activity, purchase preference and possible allergies, in order to provide a personalized nutrition adapted to the needs of each user.

The PREVENTOMICS system is presented through a digital environment via computer, with a list of products provided by the ALDI supermarket to prepare the shopping list, without having to buy the products from the ALDI supermarket.

Conditions

• Personalized Nutrition
• Health Status
• Dietary Habits

Interventions

OTHER

Personalized nutrition group

A digital environment which combines biological information, personal habits and preference to provide nutritional recommendations. This digital environment is composed by the follow softwares:1. The recommender system: software that combine the behavioral and biological information about the volunteer and generates personalized nutritional recommendations; 2. The ALDI microsite: A microsite that retrieves the personalized recommendations for the volunteer from the recommender system. The ALDI microsite matches food categories with products of the ALDI catalogue. As a result, the volunteer receives a list of products classified under different food categories that are recommended for him/her. Next to each food category, the number of servings recommended (weekly or daily) is also shown. The ALDI microsite is a tool only to elaborate a shopping list through personalized recommendations. Therefore, volunteers can choose to buy their food shopping list at wherever store other from ALDI.

OTHER

Personalized Plan group

Participants will use the same software described in for the Personalized nutrition group together with a behavioral change program designed to increase the adherence to the recommendations provided by the ALDI microsite by promoting a proper attitude by means of a series of personalized, goal-orientated, friendly, achievable actions delivered periodically to the volunteer. The behavioral change program will be fed with the results of behavior questionnaires. The personalized messages will be delivered through the ALDI microsite. These personalized messages will be available only for those subjects engaged in the Personalized Plan group.

OTHER

Control group

The participants in the control group will not have personalized recommendations. These participants will have access to a restricted version of the ALDI microsite where the list of recommended products correspond to categories that are general recommendations according to Mediterranean diet.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundació Eurecat

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus

  collaborator OTHER

• University Rovira i Virgili

  collaborator OTHER

• Horizon 2020 - European Commission

  collaborator OTHER

• Technological Centre of Nutrition and Health, Spain

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Josep M Del Bas, PhD · UTNS (Eurecat_Reus)

• Josep M Del Bas, PhD · UTNS (Eurecat_Reus)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-12-09

Primary Completion

2021-12-23

Completion

2021-12-23

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations