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Testing the Feasibility and Impact of a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Intervention on College Students

The goal of this pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and impacts of a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) vegan diet intervention for undergraduate university students randomly assigned, stratifying by sex and race/ethnicity, to one of two intervention groups (each with a distinct teaching-learning design, i.e., interactive (IA) versus lecture-based (LB)) and a control group. The main questions the researchers aimed to answer were: * Were the study procedures feasible and acceptable for the overall sample and were the intervention sessions, following a WFPB vegan diet, and the prospect of continuing this diet feasible and acceptable for the intervention participants? * Were there greater improvements in diet quality, WFPB vegan diet adherence, physical and mental health, and intrapersonal factor outcomes for the intervention group engaging in interactive learning compared to the intervention group learning through traditional lecture? And were there greater improvements in these outcomes for both intervention groups compared with the control group? The researchers compared the group outcome means for the two intervention groups against one another and those for the two intervention groups against those of the control group. Study participants completed two sets of measurements over the course of 6 weeks. * All participants completed online baseline and post-intervention surveys and in-person baseline and post-intervention biometric measurements. * Only the intervention group participants attended three 75-minute consecutive weekly intervention sessions to learn about different aspects of the WFPB vegan diet between the two sets of survey and biometric measurements.

Fruit & Vegetable Consumption and Behavioral Determinants Among Health Profession Students

This is an ancillary study of National Clinical Trial (NCT) #06229262 (which was a clinical trial that examined the effect of a 12-week mango intervention in college/university students). The objective of this study is to characterize typical fruit and vegetable intake among healthcare profession students using existing dietary data the previously completed NCT#06229262 study, and to describe the associated behavioral context, including perceived barriers, facilitators, and fruit and vegetable-related self-efficacy, using survey data collected as part of this ancillary analysis.

BioNortHealth Project

The goal of this observational longitudinal cohort study is to identify key lifestyle-related predictors of health and disease and to understand how health trajectories develop over time in adolescents and young adults. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How are lifestyle habits associated with health indicators in adolescents and young adults? * Which individual, social, and environmental factors act as risk or protective determinants of health over time? * How do lifestyle behaviours and health determinants evolve during critical life transitions, particularly academic transitions? What causal relationships exist between changes in lifestyle habits and health outcomes, after controlling for potential confounders? Participants will: * Provide digital health and lifestyle data through a digital biobank platform; * Be followed longitudinally with repeated data collection over time; * Contribute information related to health status, lifestyle behaviours, and individual, social, and environmental determinants.