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

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
Partners

prof.dr. Alfonso Cruz Jentoft
Partner
Prefessor in Geriatrics at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
in Madrid, Spain

dr. Doris Eglseer
Partner
Dietitian-researcher at the Medical University van Graz, Austria

prof.dr. Yves Boirie
Partner
Professor in Nutrition at the Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand · Martial Dangin, France

Prof. Eva Topinkova
Partner
Charles University, department of Geriatric Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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