Sridevi Krishnan1,2, Fanny Lee2, Dustin J Burnett1,2, Annie Kan1,2, Ellen L Bonnel1,2, Lindsay H Allen1,2, Sean H Adams3,4, Nancy L Keim1,2. 1. Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Davis, CA, USA. 2. Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA. 3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA. 4. Arkansas Children's Research Center, Little Rock, AR, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Controlled-feeding trials are challenging to design and administer in a free-living setting. There is a need to share methods and best practices for diet design, delivery, and standard adherence metrics. OBJECTIVES: This report describes menu planning, implementing, and monitoring of controlled diets for an 8-wk free-living trial comparing a diet pattern based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and a more typical American diet (TAD) pattern based on NHANES 2009-2010. The objectives were to 1) provide meals that were acceptable, portable, and simple to assemble at home; 2) blind the intervention diets to the greatest extent possible; and 3) use tools measuring adherence to determine the success of the planned and implemented menu. METHODS: Menus were blinded by placing similar dishes on the 2 intervention diets but changing recipes. Adherence was monitored using daily food checklists, a real-time dashboard of scores from daily checklists, weigh-backs of containers returned, and 24-h urinary nitrogen recoveries. Proximate analyses of diet composites were used to compare the macronutrient composition of the composite and planned menu. RESULTS: Meeting nutrient intake recommendations while scaling menus for individual energy intake amounts and food portions was most challenging for vitamins D and E, the sodium-to-potassium ratio, dietary fiber, and fatty acid composition. Dietary adherence for provided foods was >95%, with no differences between groups. Urinary nitrogen recoveries were ∼80% relative to nitrogen intake and not different between groups. Composite proximate analysis matched the plan for dietary fat, protein, and carbohydrates. Dietary fiber was ∼2.5 g higher in the TAD composite compared with the planned menu, but ∼7.4 g lower than the DGA composite. CONCLUSIONS: Both DGA and TAD diets were acceptable to most participants. This conclusion was supported by self-reported consumption, quantitative weigh-backs of provided food, and urinary nitrogen recovery. Dietary adherence measures in controlled-feeding trials would benefit from standard protocols to promote uniformity across studies. The trial is registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02298725. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Nutrition 2020.
BACKGROUND: Controlled-feeding trials are challenging to design and administer in a free-living setting. There is a need to share methods and best practices for diet design, delivery, and standard adherence metrics. OBJECTIVES: This report describes menu planning, implementing, and monitoring of controlled diets for an 8-wk free-living trial comparing a diet pattern based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and a more typical American diet (TAD) pattern based on NHANES 2009-2010. The objectives were to 1) provide meals that were acceptable, portable, and simple to assemble at home; 2) blind the intervention diets to the greatest extent possible; and 3) use tools measuring adherence to determine the success of the planned and implemented menu. METHODS: Menus were blinded by placing similar dishes on the 2 intervention diets but changing recipes. Adherence was monitored using daily food checklists, a real-time dashboard of scores from daily checklists, weigh-backs of containers returned, and 24-h urinary nitrogen recoveries. Proximate analyses of diet composites were used to compare the macronutrient composition of the composite and planned menu. RESULTS: Meeting nutrient intake recommendations while scaling menus for individual energy intake amounts and food portions was most challenging for vitamins D and E, the sodium-to-potassium ratio, dietary fiber, and fatty acid composition. Dietary adherence for provided foods was >95%, with no differences between groups. Urinary nitrogen recoveries were ∼80% relative to nitrogen intake and not different between groups. Composite proximate analysis matched the plan for dietary fat, protein, and carbohydrates. Dietary fiber was ∼2.5 g higher in the TAD composite compared with the planned menu, but ∼7.4 g lower than the DGA composite. CONCLUSIONS: Both DGA and TAD diets were acceptable to most participants. This conclusion was supported by self-reported consumption, quantitative weigh-backs of provided food, and urinary nitrogen recovery. Dietary adherence measures in controlled-feeding trials would benefit from standard protocols to promote uniformity across studies. The trial is registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02298725. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Nutrition 2020.
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