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        Design and baseline characteristics of the Food4Me study : a web-based randomised controlled trial of personalised nutrition in seven European countries

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        Celis-Morales, Carlos
        Livingstone, Katherine M.
        Marsaux, Cyril F.M.
        Forster, Hannah
        O’Donovan, Clare B.
        Woolhead, Clara
        Macready, Anna L.
        Fallaize, Rosalind
        Navas-Carretero, Santiago
        San-Cristobal, Rodrigo
        Kolossa, Silvia
        Hartwig, Kai
        Tsirigoti, Lydia
        Lambrinou, Christina P.
        Moschonis, George
        Godlewska, Magdalena
        Surwiłło, Agnieszka
        Grimaldi, Keith
        Bouwman, Jildau
        Daly, E. J.
        Akujobi, Victor
        O’Riordan, Rick
        Hoonhout, Jettie
        Claassen, Arjan
        Hoeller, Ulrich
        Gundersen, Thomas E.
        Kaland, Siv E.
        Matthews, John N.S.
        Manios, Yannis
        Traczyk, Iwona
        Drevon, Christian A.
        Gibney, Eileen R.
        Brennan, Lorraine
        Walsh, Marianne C.
        Lovegrove, Julie A.
        Alfredo Martinez, J.
        Saris, Wim H.M.
        Daniel, Hannelore
        Gibney, Mike
        Mathers, John C.
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        2299/16145
        Abstract
        Improving lifestyle behaviours has considerable potential for reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases, promoting better health across the life-course and increasing well-being. However, realising this potential will require the development, testing and implementation of much more effective behaviour change interventions than are used conventionally. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a multi-centre, web-based, proof-of-principle study of personalised nutrition (PN) to determine whether providing more personalised dietary advice leads to greater improvements in eating patterns and health outcomes compared to conventional population-based advice. A total of 5,562 volunteers were screened across seven European countries; the first 1,607 participants who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were recruited into the trial. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the following intervention groups for a 6-month period: Level 0—control group—receiving conventional, non-PN advice; Level 1—receiving PN advice based on dietary intake data alone; Level 2—receiving PN advice based on dietary intake and phenotypic data; and Level 3—receiving PN advice based on dietary intake, phenotypic and genotypic data. A total of 1,607 participants had a mean age of 39.8 years (ranging from 18 to 79 years). Of these participants, 60.9 % were women and 96.7 % were from white-European background. The mean BMI for all randomised participants was 25.5 kg m−2, and 44.8 % of the participants had a BMI ≥ 25.0 kg m−2. Food4Me is the first large multi-centre RCT of web-based PN. The main outcomes from the Food4Me study will be submitted for publication during 2015.
        Publication date
        2015-01-10
        Published in
        Genes and Nutrition
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1007/s12263-014-0450-2
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16145
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