Body Weight Control, Obesity Prevention, Primary Prevention
Conditions
Keywords
obesity, prevention, children, adults, family, dietary, coaching, body mass index, fat mass
Brief summary
We hypothesize that Family Dietary Coaching for one school year will allow a nutritional shift towards following recommendations and improve health indicators in free-living children and adults.
Detailed description
Insufficient evidence supports the feasibility and the efficacy of current nutritional recommendations to prevent obesity. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that family dietary coaching would improve nutritional intakes and health indicators in free-living children and adults. Intervention: the 1013 participating families (1013 children and 1013 parents) are randomly assigned to Group A (advice to reduce fat and to increase complex carbohydrates), Group B (advice to reduce both fat and sugars and to increase complex carbohydrates) or a control group (no advice). GA and GB receive monthly phone counseling and Internet-based monitoring. Main outcome measures are changes in nutritional intakes and body mass index throughout the intervention in both children and adults. Secondary outcomes included changes in fat mass, physical activity, fasting blood indicators and food-related quality of life.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALFat and carbohydrate controlled diet
Sponsors
Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France
Paris Academy (Rectorat de Paris)
Avenance Enseignement
Fondation Louis Bonduelle
Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation du Sucre
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
SINGLE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* second- or third-grade pupils * affiliation with the French Health Care System * written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
no inclusion criteria were based on pathological, ethnical or socio-educative indicators
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| changes in body mass index throughout the intervention | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| changes in fat mass throughout the intervention | — |
| changes in anthropometric indicators throughout the intervention | — |
| changes in nutritional intakes throughout the intervention | — |
| changes in fasting blood indicators throughout the intervention (adults only) | — |
| changes in food-related quality of life throughout the intervention (adults only) | — |
| changes in physical activity throughout the intervention | — |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed