NCT06882252NARecruitingAccepts Healthy Volunteers
Increasing Lean Protein Intake in Preschool-age Children and Assessing Effects on Cognition and Select Health Outcomes
Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RDN
Start Date
2/8/2025
Completion Date
12/31/2025
Summary
The proposed project addresses the goal of exploring preschooler's ability to recognize changes in feelings of hunger/satiety based on consuming a snack and a meal (lunch/dinner) that are either based on the usual childcare center fare (control) or are based on lean meats (intervention), which will have a lower glycemic index.
Eligibility Criteria
Age Range: 2 years to 5 years
Inclusion Criteria:
* child 2-5 years old
Parent participants:
* Parents of at least one child aged 2-5 years old
* Parents can communicate in English.
* Parents in households who do not have a cultural/ religious reason to abstain from to consuming pork
Exclusion Criteria:
* Child participants:
* Food allergies
* Taking medication that affects food intake (such as stimulant medications),
* Children with diabetes or impaired glucose control.
* Children with digestive disease (such as Crohn's)
* Dietary/religious preferences that exclude consumption of pork
Parent participants:
\- Dietary/religious preferences that exclude consumption of pork
Interventions
OTHER
Low glycemic index diet
Conditions
Diet Modification
Locations
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
United States