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

    dr. Sumit Mehra

    Researcher

    Researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam

    dr. Josje Schoufour

    dr. Josje Schoufour

    Researcher

    Senior Researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam – Lees meer

    prof.dr.ir. Peter Weijs

    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

    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

    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.

    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

    prof.dr. Alfonso Cruz Jentoft

    Partner

    Prefessor in Geriatrics at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
    in Madrid, Spain

    prof.dr. Rocco Barazzoni

    prof.dr. Rocco Barazzoni

    Partner

    Professor in Internal Medicine at the  Trieste University, Italy and chair of ESPEN

    dr. Doris Eglseer

    dr. Doris Eglseer

    Partner

    Dietitian-researcher at the Medical University van Graz, Austria

    dr. Katarzyna Janiszewska

    dr. Katarzyna Janiszewska

    Partner

    The European Federation of the Association of Dietitians (EFAD)

    prof.dr. Yves Boirie

    prof.dr. Yves Boirie

    Partner

    Professor in Nutrition at the Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand · Martial Dangin, France

    Dr.ir. Trudy Voorman

    Dr.ir. Trudy Voorman

    Partner

    Nutritional scientist Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Prof. Eva Topinkova

    Prof. Eva Topinkova

    Partner

    Charles University, department of Geriatric Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

    Publications

    gezond met pensioen, nieuwsbericht HvA

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