Cardiovascular Health Equity through Food Intervention for Improving Healthy Eating in Childhood Cancer Survivors
This clinical trial evaluates a new supportive care program called Cardiovascular Health Equity through Food (CHEF) for improving healthy eating in childhood cancer survivors, in order to promote long-term heart health. Healthy eating and cooking can be an extra challenge for families who face other financial stresses, so a supportive care intervention makes it financially easier to cook and eat healthy foods at home. CHEF is an adaptation of a successful “food is medicine” approach, which directly provide food to reduce food insecurity (a lack of consistent access to nutritionally adequate food) and manage nutrition-sensitive diseases, effectively improve food insecurity, dietary quality and cardiometabolic (conditions that affect both heart and metabolism) outcomes. CHEF provides meal kits (fresh ingredients paired with recipes for household meals, delivered weekly) to reduce food insecurity and build culinary skills (a proven facilitator of healthy eating behaviors), and assisted enrollment in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits to support sustainable health behavior change. The CHEF program may improve healthy eating in childhood cancer survivors.