SO-NUTS
Preventing sarcopenia, obesity, and sarcopenic obesity in people entering retirement – a personalized digitized approach to sustainably improve exercise and nutrition behavior.
With aging, there are two conditions that are frequent: excessive fat mass (obesity) and insufficient muscle mass and muscle function (sarcopenia). Both conditions frequently occur together because they have common risk factors, mainly poor diet and physical inactivity. When people retire, many things change, including habits related to diet and exercise. Often people increase in body weight after retirement. This extra weight is mainly fat mass, while muscle mass decreases. The project SO-NUTS focuses on the development of a digital tool to stimulate a sustainable exercise and nutrition pattern for people who retire.
Purpose
To develop an effective, sustainable eHealth intervention for people in retirement focusing on both nutrition and exercise.
Project Objectives
- In the first phase, the project team investigates the insights needed to develop innovative strategies to prevent sarcopenia, obesity and sarcopenic obesity. In doing so, they take into account socio-demographic differences.
- Based on these insights, researchers in the second phase develop the SO-NUTS application. This application helps people to lose weight during retirement while maintaining muscle mass.
- The project team is testing the feasibility and effectiveness of SO-NUTS in a pilot study being conducted in several European countries.
Timeline
- 2021-2025
The research team
dr. Sumit Mehra
Researcher
Researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
dr. Josje Schoufour
Researcher
Senior Researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam – Lees meer
prof.dr.ir. Peter Weijs
Project leader
Professor in Nutrition and Exercise at Amsterdam UMC and the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
prof.dr. Somaya Ben Allouch
Researcher
Professor in Digital Life & Human-System Interaction for Health & Wellbeing at University of Amsterdam and the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
dr. Bart Visser
Researcher
Scientific leader of the Centre of Expertise (CoE) Urban Vitality and professor in Occupational Therapy; Daily Exercise at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
Joey van der Bie MSc.
Researcher
Researcher at the Digital Life Centre of the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
Partners
prof.dr. Alfonso Cruz Jentoft
Partner
Prefessor in Geriatrics at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
in Madrid, Spain
prof.dr. Rocco Barazzoni
Partner
Professor in Internal Medicine at the Trieste University, Italy and chair of ESPEN
dr. Doris Eglseer
Partner
Dietitian-researcher at the Medical University van Graz, Austria
dr. Katarzyna Janiszewska
Partner
The European Federation of the Association of Dietitians (EFAD)
prof.dr. Yves Boirie
Partner
Professor in Nutrition at the Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand · Martial Dangin, France
Dr.ir. Trudy Voorman
Partner
Nutritional scientist Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Eva Topinkova
Partner
Charles University, department of Geriatric Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
Publications
gezond met pensioen, nieuwsbericht HvA
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