The dublin people ‘southside people’
The APPETITE team in Dublin recently had a series of health related articles in the soutside edition of The Dublin People Newspaper.
The articles ran over 4 consecutive weeks focussing on overall health in older adults, and three issues focussing on the importance of Protein, Fibre, and Physcial Activity specifically in older adults.
Attached to each article was an advert for the APPETITE study and details on how to express an interest in the study. Of course the APPETITE study has a focus on the important items listed above and how we can manipulate such dietary and lifestyle elements to improve the health of older adults and reduce the risk of associated adverse health outcomes.
If you are interested in the APPETITE study you can email us on appetite@ucd.ie, or call us on 087 2166496 / 01 716 3256.
The APPETITE teams in Dublin, Ireland are delighted to announce they will have a booth at the upcoming “The 50 plus show” in Dublin’s RDS venue.
The show will be running on Friday 14th & Saturday 15th April from 10am to 5pm.
The APPETITE team will be available to answer all questions health related, and introduce you to our novel study, what it entails and whether you might be a good candidate for us. So come on down and speak with the team, register your interest, and get invovled in some of the other activities we will have on the day.
Registration for the show is free, just click on the link below.
The 50+ show - RDS Dublin
The APPETITE teams across all centres are delighted to have commenced the final stages of the overall APPETITE study, the human intervention study.
This stage of the project involved the recruitment of 60 participants at each of the four research centres (280 in total) to a 12-week intervention. Each participant will be randomly allocated to one of the four study tracks, the personalised nutrition track, the physcial activity track, a combination of nutrition and physcial activity track, and the control group who will not received any intervention.
Prior to commencing the intervention, each participant will undergo a battery of assessments to measure endurance capacity and balance, muscle strength (isometric handgrip and leg strength) , body composition, and resting metabolic rate.
The results at the end of the intervention will allow us to evaluate individual change in appetite and energy intake, changes in daily protein, fibre and energy intake, incidence of undernutrition (loss of body weight and lean body mass), appetite related biomarker profiling (appetite-regulating peptides, markers of muscle metabolism, gut microbiome, plasma metabolomics profiles).
APPETITE will improve our understanding about plant-based protein and fibre products and their metabolic and clinical effects. It will create new knowledge how these products in a whole-diet approach together with physical activity and regular social contacts may contribute to overcome undernutrition.
Don’t worry there is still time to get involved, contact a member of the team directly on 01 716 3256/ 087 216 6496, OR by email at appetite@ucd.ie
To register your interest with our European partners, please follow the ‘Get Involved’ tab at the top of the screen and enter your details with the appropriate centre.
APPETITE - Human intervention study
27/04/2022
Peripheral amino acid appearance following ingestion of Plant protein and fibre
The month of April has been a busy one here at UCD as we progressed through Phase 2 of the APPETITE project. We invited 7 volunteers to participate in single-blinded crossover study were participants consumed a standard meal incorporating our innovative plant-based protein and fibre supplements. Volunteers presented at the Institute for Sport and Health (ISH) at our Belfield campus on 4 separate occasions with at least 1 week washout between visits. Three different protein varieties progressed onto this stage of the project and were compared against Whey protein as a standard control. Watch this space for our results.
04/03/2022
Tasting Sessions - Sensory acceptability
Over the past two weeks here at UCD we have been working hard to assess the sensory acceptability and palatability of our 6 different varieties of plant-based protein supplements. These supplements are designed to be incorporated into the usual diet and provide an optimal amino acid profile for the maintenance of muscle mass and health. We have had some interesting responses but overall very positive results. Many thanks and much appreciation to our volunteers without whom this kind of research would not be possible.
17/02/2022
Focus group - Sensory acceptability
Great to have the first of our focus groups commencing this morning here at UCD. The purpose of these sessions are to taste and discuss terms/words that best describe the characteristics of each plant-protein and fibre sample. These terms will describe the appearance, taste, and textures experienced during consumption, and will inform the development of questionnaires to be used in later stages of our research.