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The School of Medicine and BCC Innovation are looking for volunteers with diabetes subject 2 to participate in a project of research
For four months, they will receive nutritional and culinary intervention, and will be able to participate in cooking workshops given by chefs from the Basque Culinary Center.
The School of Medicine of the University of Navarra and BCC Innovation, the technological center specialized in gastronomy of the Basque Culinary Center, are looking for volunteers for the project of research Sukalmena, which aims to provide culinary tools to people with diabetes subject 2.
The prevalence of this disease in Spain is above 13% among people over 18 years of age, which is why the researchers have considered healthy, sustainable and tasty cooking as a strategy for empowering their health. "Our work as scientists may be insufficient if we do not get patients with diabetes subject 2 to consume dishes cooked at home and minimize those consumed outside due to lack of time to cook," notes Dr. Miguel Ruiz Canela, from department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University of Navarra. "The challenge of project is, therefore, to help them recover healthy culinary traditions by adapting them to current lifestyles."
To this end, the program consists of a nutritional and culinary intervention, which includes cooking workshops taught by research chefs from the Basque Culinary Center, where participants will learn to cook in an easy, enjoyable way and with tools for the preparation of tasty and healthy dishes. The BCC experts will be responsible for carrying out the intervention, while the University researchers will be in charge of data analysis.
Two study groups and online workshops
Two groups of volunteers will be created to carry out the study: one will receive only nutritional intervention and the other will receive nutritional and culinary intervention. For this case, four theoretical seminars and four practical workshops with an online chef have been designed and will take place during the month of November.
Candidates must be diagnosed as diabetic subject 2, not be treated with insulin, be overweight or obese, and between 18 and 70 years of age. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups, which will have a maximum duration of 4 months.
Those interested can sign up on the project website(www.sukalmena.com) or apply for for more information by calling 948425600 extension 806596.