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Bitter Taste and Weight Loss in Women

NCT01856660 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 107

Last updated 2021-08-24

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Summary

Individual food preferences are not considered in designing weight-loss therapies. This project will determine if short-term weight-loss is improved by matching participants with diets that reflect their genetically-determined food preferences.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Low-Carbohydrate Diet

Participants are provided with a 6-month standard lifestyle intervention where carbohydrate intake is limited to 50 g/day. There is no calorie restriction for participants following the Low-Carbohydrate diet. Gradual increase in physical activity across the trial to \> 40 min per day, 5 times/week.

BEHAVIORAL

Low-fat Diet

Participants are provided with a 6-month standard lifestyle intervention. They will follow an energy restricted, low-fat diet where the daily energy consumption target is 1,200- 1,500 kilocalories/d. The fat intake target is 28% or less of daily kilocalories. Gradual increase in physical activity until participants are active at least 40 min per day, 5 times/week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rutgers University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Beverly J Tepper, PhD · Rutgers University, Deptartment of Food Science

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2016-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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