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Substituting Mushrooms for Meat to Control Body Weight

NCT01177085 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2018-04-03

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Summary

This is a one-year clinical trial to assess weight-loss, weight-maintenance, and biochemical parameters following a weight-control diet using either standard food guide pyramid alone, or standard food guide pyramid with substitution of mushrooms for meat.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Weight-loss and weight-maintenance diets

Participants will be given a personalized diet plan, with or without use of mushrooms as part of the diet, at a calorie level sufficiently restricted to result in a 20 lb weight loss over a period of 6 months, followed by a weight maintenance diet for a further 6 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mushroom Council

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lawrence J Cheskin, MD · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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