Full Plate Diet Study (FPDCT)

Loma Linda University (LLU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diet Modification

Treatments: Other: Full Plate Diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03232970

5170138

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison between two groups, experimental and control. Experimental will undergo lectures on a diet to increase fiber consumption. Blood tests and anthropometric measures will be done before and after the 3-months long program. Comparisons will be made pre and post and with groups.

Full description

The Full Plate Diet Clinical Trial is a study that will verify if the three months course is sufficient to change diet behavior of the participants. Forty participants will be recruited and then randomly assigned to one of two groups (20 in each group): The Experimental group will attend one weekly session with instructions on how to increase fiber intake; Control group will not have the intervention. The goal of the study is to see if the Full Plate Diet program will improve blood measures of metabolic diseases and weight.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any gender and age between 21-65 years

Exclusion criteria

• BMI between 25 to 35,
• no debilitating disease,
• no previous participation in the FPD program,
• no allergies to beans

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

FPD group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will undergo three months of weekly lectures to incorporate more fiber in their diet.

Treatment:

Other: Full Plate Diet

FPD Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will receive all the assessments before, during and after the three months program period but will not attend the weekly lectures.