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Foundations for Health

NCT01304615 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2018-04-05

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Summary

Foundations for Health is a 12-week behavioral weight loss interventions primarily conducted via the internet aimed at helping overweight and obese young adults (ages 18-30) lose weight by increasing physical activity, decreasing the energy density of the diet, and increasing consumption of low energy dense self-made meals by providing culinary training skills.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Decrease Energy Density of the Diet

Participants will be given goals to help guide their food choices to decrease the energy density of the overall diet. The goals are to eat 10 or more foods with an ED less than 1.0 and 2 or less foods with an ED of great than 3.0 each day and to reduce portion sizes.

BEHAVIORAL

Increase Steps per Day

Participants will increase their steps per day by at least 3,000 steps per day above their baseline levels.

BEHAVIORAL

Consumption of Self-made Meals

Participants will have the goal of increasing the number of self-prepared meals that they consume to 10 or more lunch and dinner meals each week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hollie A. Raynor, Ph.D. · University of Tennessee

  • Carol Costello, Ph.D. · University of Tennessee

  • Ann Fairhurst, Ph.D. · University of Tennessee

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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