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Plants Optimizing Development Study (PODS)

Description

This study aims to conduct a randomized clinical trial to measure the effects of a 3-month daily mixed-soy food intervention vs. a control group receiving isocaloric foods on reproductive hormones, body composition, metabolic risk, fecal microbiota, and cognition among 8-11-year-old children. Additionally, this study will assess soy food intake immediately following participation in the clinical trial to determine changes in soy food acceptance in children.

Conditions

Healthy Children
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Study overview

This study aims to conduct a randomized clinical trial to measure the effects of a 3-month daily mixed-soy food intervention vs. a control group receiving isocaloric foods on reproductive hormones, body composition, metabolic risk, fecal microbiota, and cognition among 8-11-year-old children. Additionally, this study will assess soy food intake immediately following participation in the clinical trial to determine changes in soy food acceptance in children.

Plants Optimizing Development Study

Plants Optimizing Development Study (PODS)

Condition
Healthy Children
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Urbana

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

For general information about clinical research, read Learn About Studies.

Eligibility Criteria

  • * Child assent and parent/guardian consent
  • * Free of any food allergy
  • * 8-11 years of age
  • * Tanner scale score of ≤ 2
  • * 20/20 or corrected vision
  • * No antibiotic usage in the past 3 months
  • * ≤1 serving/d of soy food habitual consumption
  • * Non-assent or consent by child assent and/or parent/guardian
  • * Presence of any food allergy
  • * Younger than 8 years or older than 11 years
  • * Presence of specific neurological and genetic disorders (i.e., Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Down syndrome)
  • * Presence of endocrine, metabolic, and gastrointestinal disease e.g., hypertension, diabetes, celiac disease
  • * Tanner scale score of \> 2
  • * Not 20/20 or uncorrected vision
  • * Antibiotic usage in the past 3 months
  • * \>1 serving/d of soy food habitual consumption

Ages Eligible for Study

8 Years to 11 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Study Record Dates

2026-09-30