Mona Hashim, Hadia Radwan, Leila Cheikh Ismail, MoezAllslam Ezzat Faris, Maysm N Mohamad, Sheima T Saleh, Bisan Sweid, Raghad Naser, Rahaf Hijaz, Rania Altaher, Eman Rashed, Eman Turki, Mahra Al Kitbi
Determinants for Mediterranean diet adherence beyond the boundaries: a cross-sectional study from Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates
Journal of translational medicine
culinary interventions cooking classes potential educational tool salt reduction home diet content never reported detail study aimed develop cooking class salt reduction describe rationale structure parties could replicate preliminarily assess impact salt intake multidisciplinary research team developed cooking class package reduce salt content japanese home diet package comprised developmental policy teaching methodology menu recipes implementation manual aimed allow third parties replicate modify content team took following stepbystep developmental approach first traditional home meals modeled create strategies contributing target 2 g saltmeal educational topics developed strategies finally dietitian produced menus prepared documents class impact cooking class assessed nonrandomized study community residents outcome differences urinary salt excretion intervention general linear models used account possible confounders authors assumed 47 g saltmeal analyzing typical japanese home diets developed 3 strategies 1 restricting salt content main dish 2 maintaining good tastes without salty dishes 3 balancing nutrition lowsalt dishes basis strategies authors selected total 5 educational topics participants could learn apply home 1a simple reliable technique limit salt serving 2a excluding salty dishes 2b staple foods notable flavor aroma 3a flavoring without salt side dishes 3b ingredients used intentionally team dietitian translated educational topics menu recipes handson training prepared manual conducting class class developed using approach successfully overseen dietitian outside research team validation study intervention group n52 showed greater decrease urinary salt excretion control group n46 adjusted difference 138 g p0001 authors developed cooking class package salt reduction third parties could replicate modify class significant salt reduction noted study warrants studies apply cooking class populations