Research
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Higher acculturation levels moderate the effectiveness of the MyPlate intervention, with the most acculturated participants showing the greatest reductions in waist circumference.
If you are recently immigrated or less acculturated to US food systems, standard MyPlate advice might be less effective for reducing belly fat. You may need more personalized guidance that integrates your traditional healthy foods with US dietary guidelines.
GoodQualifiesHIGH confidence
only the MyPlate participants in the top tertile of acculturation reduced their waist circumference significantly at 12 months (b = −3.42, 95% CI, −6.40 to −0.45; P = .0243).
Why this rating
Statistically significant interaction found in a randomized trial.
Source
Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial of 2 Federally Recommended Strategies to Reduce Excess Body Fat in Overweight, Low-Income Patients: MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting
William J. McCarthy et al. · The Annals of Family Medicine · 2023
DOI 10.1370/afm.2964
rct · n=261Cited 5×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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