Adhering to Dietary Approaches for Personal Taste (ADAPT)

Understanding the impact of dietary patterns, exercise, and behavior change in the prevention of disease is paramount to improving the health and well-being of future generations and economies. A gap in the research is the lack of data on factors that predict successful behavior change for sustained dietary practices chosen for health or other personal reasons. To date, no survey exists that was designed to target persons following a wide range of popular dietary patterns (e.g., Paleo, low-carb, vegetarian, vegan, Mediterranean, gluten-free, etc.). These dietary patterns, which offer great variation in macronutrient composition, are unique and unexplored in other similar surveys to date, making their examination innovative. Adhering to Dietary Approaches for Personal Taste (ADAPT) will be the first large cohort of its type that is focused on adherence to popular dietary patterns, providing the opportunity to better understand how individuals can be supported to successfully maintain a specific dietary practice, and, in the long-term, how these practices may influence parameters of healthy aging.