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Multicenter Worksite Nutrition Study

NCT01224548 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 292

Last updated 2013-01-24

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to study the potential benefits of low fat vegan diet in a randomized, controlled and multi-centered workplace setting, the investigators will enroll participants from 10 worksites of Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO). After randomization, 5 will be the vegan sites and 5 will be the control sites for 10 month study. The vegan sites will receive low fat vegan diet instructions and weekly group sessions starting from year 1. no intervention is done to the control sites until the week 18 when the identical program will be given. At various time points, health measurements will be give to all participants.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

vegan instruction and food accessibility

weekly 1-hr instructions including vegan nutritional information and cooking instructions. vegan menu will be made available at the cafeteria

OTHER

control

no intervention in until June 2011. The control group start vegan diet in July 2011.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neal Barnard, M.D. · Washington Center for Clinical Research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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