Adherence
A 3-month remote culinary coaching intervention significantly improves long-term home cooking habits, nutritional knowledge, and self-efficacy in overweight/obese adults, with effects sustained at 12 months.
To improve your diet, focus on building cooking skills and planning rather than just reading nutrition labels. Commit to a structured program that includes weekly coaching and goal setting. Start with simple recipes and meal prep to overcome the barrier of time and convenience. The key is building confidence and routine, not just knowledge.
These results provide one-year-long information about participant facilitators, barriers, and needs for making home-cooking changes categorized to the participant stage of change at program entry.
Why this rating
Qualitative study with small sample size (n=24), though part of an RCT.
Source
Personalized Culinary Medicine: Qualitative Analyses of Perceptions from Participants in Action and Contemplation Stages of Change Through a One-Year Bi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial
Adi Finkelstein et al. · Nutrients · 2025
DOI 10.3390/nu17040704
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