Kitchen cure: culinary medicine may help reverse metabolic syndrome
NCT ID NCT07702695
First seen Jul 14, 2026 · Last updated Jul 15, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether adding hands-on cooking classes to standard Mediterranean diet advice helps adults aged 30-60 with metabolic syndrome improve their health. Participants receive either diet counseling alone or counseling plus culinary training, including recipe booklets and cooking videos. Over 6 months, researchers track changes in waist size, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol to see if the cooking component leads to better outcomes.
What this could mean
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- Active substance
- Mediterranean diet-based culinary intervention
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could offer a practical, food-based strategy to reverse metabolic syndrome and reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage trial with 120 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The benefit of added cooking classes over standard diet advice may be modest.
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Conditions
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Locations
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IDIBAPS - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona)
Barcelona, Barcelona, 08035, Spain
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