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Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition and Performance in Soccer Players

NCT04078971 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2019-09-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A ketogenic diet (KD) is a nutritional approach, usually adopted for weight loss, that restricts daily carbohydrates under 30 g/day. KD showed contradictory results on sport performance, whilst no data are available on team sports. The investigators will investigate the influence of a KD on different parameters in soccer players

Conditions

  • Athletic Performance

Interventions

OTHER

Western diet

Subjects in this intervention will follow a normal western diet

OTHER

ketogenic diet

Subjects in this group will follow a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Antonio Paoli

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antonio Paoli, MD · University of Padova

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-02
Primary Completion
2018-10-30
Completion
2018-12-15

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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