Tom Baranowski

Publication Date 7-27-2024 Journal Translational Behavioral Medicine PubMedCentral® Posted Date 5-18-2024 PubMedCentral® Full Text Version Post-print Published Open-Access yes Keywords Humans, Social Marketing, Patient Selection, recruitment, social marketing, product, price, place, promotion Abstract Recruitment of research participants often has not obtained a desired sample size, thereby becoming a major problem inhibiting investigators' ability to adequately test the specified hypotheses.

While the primary outcome, daily MVPA, did not show significant changes over time within each condition, the hypothesis received partial support from the post-hoc exploratory analysis. The [Narrative + AVG] group demonstrated more daily MVPA than the [Waitlist Control] group in the first half of the RCT. Interestingly, the [AVG Only] condition experienced less lean mass gain and lower HDL cholesterol levels compared to the [Waitlist Control] in the first half of the intervention.

Keywords Child, Diet, Healthy, Eating, Energy Metabolism, Female, Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Homeostasis, Humans, Male, Pediatric Obesity, behavioral nutrition, microbiome, energy balance, children, obesity prevention, multietiological Abstract Obesity prevention interventions generally have either not worked or had effects inadequate to mitigate the problem. They have been predicated on the simple energy balance model, which has been severely questioned by biological scientists.