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

Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RDN

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Diet Modification

Treatments: Other: Low glycemic index diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06882252

HSR231601

Details and patient eligibility

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.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Diet modification: Low glycemic index diet Meal and snack are made with lean pork to reduce glycemic index of food consumed.

Treatment:

Other: Low glycemic index diet

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Typically consumed meal and snack; high glycemic index