Adherence
An academia-industry partnership model for community-based controlled feeding studies enables high-fidelity macronutrient differentiation and long-term adherence, overcoming the feasibility and cost barriers of traditional hospital-based metabolic ward trials.
This paper does not offer a direct diet plan for individuals, but it validates that high-adherence dietary interventions are possible in real-world settings if logistical barriers are removed. For researchers or program designers, partnering with commercial food services (like Sodexo) allows for the creation of palatable, differentiated diets that participants can actually follow long-term. For individuals, the key takeaway is that removing the burden of meal planning and procurement (via meal delivery or similar services) significantly improves adherence to specific macronutrient targets.
This academia-industry partnership provides a model for controlled feeding protocols in nutrition research, potentially with enhanced cost-effectiveness, practicality, and generalizability.
Why this rating
Based on a large, multi-cohort RCT with high retention rates (90.2% in test phase) and rigorous quality control (spot checks, weighed meals).
Source
An Academia-Industry Partnership for Planning and Executing a Community-Based Feeding Study
Julia MW Wong et al. · Current Developments in Nutrition · 2018
DOI 10.1093/cdn/nzy060
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