Sukalmena InAge: Nutritional-culinary Programme to Promote Adherence to a Healthy Dietary Pattern.

The patients in the nutritional intervention group will receive dietary advice on how to follow a Mediterranean diet. The dietary recommendations will be given at the beginning of the study by nutritionists using comprehensive written material.

The culinary intervention will be developed integrating eight culinary and nutritional workshops that will be given every week, twice per week, during one-month intervention. The duration of each culinary and nutritional workshop will be 1 hour, thus, the program will provide a total of hours of nutritional education and a total of 8 hours of nutritional and cooking training. The courses will take place in a well-equipped kitchen from the Basque Culinary Center and participants will be connected online in order to be able to cook and practice at the same time. All cooking classes will begin with a theoretical introductory part that aim to explain the main take-home messages from the workshop. Subsequently, every class will be characterized by a hands-on part that will include the demonstration and practical preparation of different elaborations based on the use specific cooking techniques and healthy ingredients.