| Interventions |
Personalised care This is a six-month personalised nutrition and exercise intervention. Participants will be asked to attend two study appointments (baseline and after 6 months of intervention), each 1-1.5 hours at the Department of Medicine, Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand. Participants will also receive a monthly 15-minute follow up phone call from the research team. All intervention will be provided by the research dietitian during the entire study duration. Nutrition education will be based off the Heart Foundation eating for a Healthy Heart booklet. Topic of focus will include benefits of fruit and vegetables, wholegrain, fibre, and fat intake and how to incorporate these into diet. During the first study visit, the research dietitian will go through the booklet with participants and set dietary goals together which will take approximately 30 minutes. Each month, the research dietitian will contact participants and review the dietary goals from the booklet. A seasonal produce box along with recipes compiled from New Zealand websites (Heart Foundation, 5aday, and vegetables) will be provided each week for the first month to facilitate change. Participants will be asked to report their weekly consumption of the produce box with a short online questionnaire. The Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) exercise programme planner (Fagan G, Osborne H, Schultz M. Inflamm Intest Dis. 2021;6:61) will be used to encourage more physical activity. The main components of the exercise programme planner consist of information on how to get started with being more active, tips on setting exercise goals, and troubleshooting when necessary. Examples of activities such as walking, deep-water running, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), and body-weight exercises |