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The Cooking for Health Optimization and Disease Prevention (CHOP) Trial

NCT07011459 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2025-09-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Poor nutrition-related diseases disproportionately impact seniors and racial/ethnic minorities who are more likely to experience disparities in proper nutrition. Culinary medicine is a new evidence-based educational approach that blends the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine. Recently, culinary medicine is proposed by the 2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research and national 'Food is Medicine (FIM)' Movement as potential solutions for improving healthy eating, creating social and emotional connections, and nutrition-related health equity. Built upon the well-established community teaching kitchen at The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine (GCCM) at Tulane University and nearly 10 years of experience in delivering culinary education of Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the feasibility and effectiveness of 3-month community teaching kitchen-based culinary education of MedDiet on improving cardiometabolic and mental health among racially and ethnically diverse seniors.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cooking class

3-month community teaching kitchen-based culinary education of MedDiet

OTHER

Standard of care

Participants will continue to receive clinical care recommendations from their physicians

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Humana Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Tulane University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lu Qi, PhD, MD · Tulane University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Max Age
120 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-07
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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