On the 18th of November 2024 the new paper illustrating the project’s protocol, titled “SwitchingMediterranean Consumers toMediterranean Sustainable Healthy Dietary Patterns (SWITCHtoHEALTHY): Study Protocol of a Multicentric and Multi-Cultural Family-Based Nutritional Intervention Study” was published on “MDPI” (publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals). The scientific paper – prepared by the project’s partners EURECAT, CREDA, CERTH, BUU, UNIPR, ENCO, CNTA – explains the methods used and the educational tools provided to families participating in the three-month study. The SWITCHtoHEALTHY study is the first multicentric nutritional intervention study assessing the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention to improve the adherence of Mediterranean families to the MD eating pattern through sustained changes in dietary behaviour.
The novelty of the SWITCHtoHEALTHY study relies on the holistic family-based approach that combines and adapts different interactive tools, snack products, and methodologies designed to foster adherence to the MD of the different family members (parents, adolescents, and children) by considering their specific needs. The proposed approach involves the four main driving forces that, together, improve adherence to the MD eating pattern: sociocultural, economic, environmental, and health–nutritional.
Authors: Lorena Calderón-Pérez, Alícia Domingo, Josep M. del Bas, Biotza Gutiérrez, Anna Crescenti, Djamel Rahmani, Amèlia Sarroca, José Maria Gil, Kenza Goumeida, Tianyu Zhang Jin, Metin Güldas, Çagla Erdgan Demir, Asmaa El Hamdouchi, Lazaros P. Gymnopoulos,Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Perla Degli Innocenti, Alice Rosi, Francesca Scazzina, Eva Petri, Leyre Urtasun, Giuseppe Salvio, Marco de la Feld and Noemi Boqué.