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The Southern Italian Children, Adolescents and PaRents COhort Study on Nutrition and Health

NCT05784376 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2023-03-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Childhood obesity is a major public health concern worldwide and parents play a powerful role in children's eating behaviour. Most prior studies analysed parents and children's diet almost exclusively by evaluating food composition (i.e. calorie, macro- and micronutrient contents), with no or little attention paid to degree of food processing. The NOVA classification was proposed as a novel way to look at foods based on the degree of processing of foods rather than on their nutritional composition, postulating that processing may be as relevant to health as food composition. The term ultra-processed food (UPF) indicates industrially manufactured ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat formulations made mostly or entirely from substances extracted from foods or derived from food constituents often containing added flavours, colours, emulsifiers and other cosmetic additives. Most importantly, these industrial formulations are designed to maximize palatability and consumption through a combination of calorie-dense ingredients and chemical additives. Robust and well-conducted cohort studies worldwide found that a large dietary share of UPF is associated with shorter survival and an increased risk of non-communicable diseases. Given the rising popularity of UPF globally, and also in Mediterranean countries, the issue of food processing should be prioritized in relevant dietary recommendations with emphasis on consumption of minimally/unprocessed foods.

Conditions

  • Diet Habit
  • Diet, Healthy
  • Child Obesity
  • Parents
  • Nutrition, Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Education-based

Nutrition education delivered via text messages through mobile applications (e.g. WhatsApp).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universita degli Studi di Catania

    collaborator OTHER

  • Neuromed IRCCS

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marialaura Bonaccio, PhD · IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed

  • Licia Iacoviello, MD, PhD · IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-01
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2025-06-30

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