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Clinical trialNCT07011459RecruitingInterventional

The Cooking for Health Optimization and Disease Prevention (CHOP) Trial

SponsorTulane UniversityEnrollment96Cardiovascular Diseases
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Poor nutrition-related diseases disproportionately impact seniors and racial/ethnic minorities who are more likely to experience disparities in proper nutrition. Culinary medicine is a new evidence-based educational approach that blends the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine. Recently, culinary medicine is proposed by the 2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research and national 'Food is Medicine (FIM)' Movement as potential solutions for improving healthy eating, creating social and emotional connections, and nutrition-related health equity. Built upon the well-established community teaching kitchen at The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine (GCCM) at Tulane University and nearly 10 years of experience in delivering culinary education of Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the feasibility and effectiveness of 3-month community teaching kitchen-based culinary education of MedDiet on improving cardiometabolic and mental health among racially and ethnically diverse seniors.
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Investigators

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Sites

2 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine

    New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

    Vivian Fonseca, MD
    Recruiting
  • Tulane Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

    New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

    Lu Qi, MD, PhD
    Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
7 Jul 2025
Primary completion
31 Dec 2026
Completion
31 Dec 2026
Last update posted
11 Sept 2025
Registered enrollment
96
Registry id
NCT07011459
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.