Cooking as a Health Behavior: Examining the Role of Cooking Classes in a Weight Loss Intervention.

ABSTRACT: Americans are cooking fewer meals at home and eating more convenience foods prepared elsewhere. Cooking at home is associated with higher quality diets, while a reduction in cooking may be associated with increases in obesity and risk factors for chronic disease. The aims of this study were to examine cooking as an intervention for weight control in overweight and obese adults, and whether such an intervention increases participants' food agency and diet quality. Overweight and obese adults were randomized into one of two intervention conditions: active or demonstration. Both conditions received the same 24-week behavioral weight loss intervention, and bi-weekly cooking classes. The active condition prepared a weekly meal during a hands-on lesson, while the demonstration condition observed

SUBMITTER: Alpaugh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7761020 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature