Improving quality of life combining
optimal nutrition and physical exercise
Improving quality of life combining optimal nutrition and physical exercise
Choko-age is a scientific EU-funded project that aims to tackle the age- dependent malnutrition and the metabolic decline of tissues through combining the health-promoting effects of nutrition and physical exercise.
The elderly are naturally vulnerable to muscle wasting due to lowered efficacy of metabolic processes and undernutrition. This may lead to a significant loss of muscle function and a general decline in the quality of life.
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Randomised controlled trial combining vitamin E-functionalised chocolate with physical exercise to reduce the risk of protein–energy malnutrition in predementia aged people: study protocol for Choko-Age
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The project's team
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Co-founded by
MUR
Co-founded by
MUR
Co-founded by
RCN
Co-founded by
UKRI
Co-founded by
ISCII
Co-founded by
MUR
Co-founded by
MUR
Co-founded by
RCN
Co-founded by
UKRI
Co-founded by
ISCII
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External partners
External partners
Gender balance
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Choko-Age values gender balance, with 23 woman and 21 man working togheter for the same goal.
Age balance
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While young people bring new ideas, older ones offer valuable experience. Having a good balance is essential. This is why professionals of all ages work at Choko-Age.
Funding
The Joint Programming Initiative a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL)
Over 2 billion people in this world are overweight and the associated costs are 1.2 trillion dollar per year. At the same time, the population in many countries is ageing, which increases the incidence of malnutrition. This leads to underweight and micro deficiencies. lf no action is taken, diet-related diseases are expected to increase rapidly in the next decade, stretching health systems to the breaking point. In the JPI HDHL, 20 countries from within and outside of Europe are working on a programmed approach to align national R&I strategies and to fund new research, in order to facilitate true understanding of the relationship between diet, physical activity and health.
call for proposals
The aim of this call is to support transnational and transdisciplinary research projects that will improve the prevention of undernutrition in older adults. Proposals should focus on one or both of the following topics:
- Improved understanding of how the balance between nutrition, lifestyle and physical exercise can prevent undernutrition. The studies should focus on the underlying biological mechanisms of the bioavailability, assimilation and metabolism of the macro- and/or micronutrients in food or food products and show how lifestyle and physical activity could modify these processes.
- Development of innovative food products. The developed product should be based on new research on metabolism, on macro- and/or micronutrient bioavailability and absorption in older adults.
ERA-HDHL
ERA-HDHL is the first ERA-NET Cofund of the JPI-HDHL. It aims to provide a robust platform for implementing Joint Funding Actions that address the research challenges that are identified and described in the Strategic Research Agenda and Implementation Plans of JPI HDHL. ERA-HDHL objectives are also to improve coordination and reduce the overlap between national and EU funding in relevant fields of research, achieve a critical mass and ensure better use of limited resources in fields of mutual interests.
Total funding received:
1.068.632 €
Project roadmap
The Choko-Age
project
Combining vitamin E-functionalized CHOcolate with physical exercise to reduce the risKOf protein-energy malnutrition in pre-dementia AGEd people
Seniors are naturally vulnerable to muscle wasting due to undernutrition, which results in them experiencing a significant loss of locomotor function and a general decline in quality of life.
Seniors are naturally vulnerable to muscle wasting due to undernutrition, which results in them experiencing a significant loss of locomotor function and a general decline in quality of life.
Seniors are naturally vulnerable to muscle wasting due to undernutrition, which results in them experiencing a significant loss of locomotor function and a general decline in quality of life.
Seniors are naturally vulnerable to muscle wasting due to undernutrition, which results in them experiencing a significant loss of locomotor function and a general decline in quality of life.