Fiber Health Benefits

Warren Bishop

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Placebo (low fiber bar); Dietary Supplement: Fiber

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02177864

201202731

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that fiber supplementation will provide measurable differences in indices of children's health (fewer complaints of abdominal pain and constipation, lower body mass index) compared to placebo.

Full description

This prospective study proposes supplementing children with fiber or placebo for four months. Children in elementary school, ages 5-12, will be randomized to receive fiber supplemented bars vs low-fiber snack bars (placebo).

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Children bewteen ages of 5-12 years

Exclusion criteria

• History of allergy/intolerance to components of the snack bars (e.g. celiac disease)
• History of Hisrchsprungs disease, abdominal surgery to intestine or colon
• Unable to take a fiber bar by mouth

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Fiber

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Fiber

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Placebo (low fiber bar)