Grocery intervention and DNA-based assessment to improve diet quality in pediatric obesity: a pilot randomized controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed the impact of a food-provisioning intervention on diet quality in children with obesity.

Methods

Participants (n = 33, aged 6-11 years) were randomly assigned to either usual care (intensive health behavior and lifestyle treatment) or intervention (usual care + food provisioning; high-fiber, low-dairy diet) for 4 weeks. The primary outcome was a change in child diet quality at Week 4. Secondary outcomes were changes in weight, food insecurity, gut microbiome composition (16S ribosomal RNA), and dietary intake, measured via an objective DNA-based biomarker (i.e., FoodSeq). Genomic dietary data were analyzed against a larger pediatric adolescent obesity cohort (n = 195, aged 10-18 years) from similar households.

Results

Intervention demonstrated ch

SUBMITTER: Aqeel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11977789 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature