Cereal-based Products Fortified With Legumes and Effects on Body Weight Management

Harokopio University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Other: cereal snack; Other: cereal-legume snack

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04176614

62/03072018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Legumes are high nutritional quality foods and constitute a rich source of proteins and dietary fibers which have been associated with appetite regulation and body weight management. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of regular consumption of a cereal-based snack fortified with legumes on body weight reduction.

Full description

Overweight/obese, non-diabetic subjects will participate in the study. Subjects will follow a 12-week energy-restricted dietary intervention supplemented with a certain amount of a cereal-based snack fortified with legumes daily. The effects of dietary intervention on body weight reduction will be examined.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• normal exercise and dietary habits
• weight stable for at least 3 months before enrollment

Exclusion criteria

• diabetes
• pregnancy
• chronic medical illness
• use of nutritional supplements
• regular intense exercise
• alcohol consumption > 2 drinks/day

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

cereal-legume snack

Experimental group

Description:

Certain amount of cereal-legume snack daily for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: cereal-legume snack

cereal snack

Active Comparator group

Description:

Certain amount of cereal snack daily for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: cereal snack