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Increasing Lean Protein Intake in Preschool-age Children and Assessing Effects on Cognition and Select Health Outcomes

Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RDN · NCT06882252

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 2–5 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
20
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
February 8, 2025
Record last updated
March 18, 2025

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What the study is about

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.

Being studied: Low glycemic index diet

Conditions: Diet Modification

Eligibility criteria

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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

Recruiting US locations

  • University of Virginia

    Charlottesville, VA 22903

    Site contact: Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RD · 434-924-7904 · sibylle.kranz@virginia.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RD · 434-924-7904 · sibylle.kranz@virginia.edu
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