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The Effectiveness of Commercial Weight Loss Programmes

NCT00327821 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2006-07-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The objective is to compare the effectiveness of 4 different commercial weight-loss diets available to adults in the UK.

This is achieved with a 6 month multi-centre randomised unblinded controlled trial of

* Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution,
* The slimFast Plan,
* The weight Watchers Pure Points Programme,
* Rosemary Conley's "Eat Yourself Slim" Diet \& Fitness Plan.
* No diet (control)

Subjects are a community based sample of 300 (60 per group) otherwise healthy overweight and obese adults.

Main outcome measures are weight and body fat change over 6 months.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

calorie controlled diet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • British Broadcasting Corporation

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of Surrey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • D J Millward, PhD · University of Surrey

  • H A Truby, PhD SRD · University of Surrey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-07-31
Completion
2003-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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