Hallelujah Acres Omega 3 Fat Study

Hallelujah Acres

Status: Completed

Conditions: Omega 3 Fat Status

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Organic flax seed oil; Dietary Supplement: fish oil

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01517685

20111700

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research is being done to study the effect of taking flax seed oil and fish oil on blood lipids in vegetarians following the Hallelujah Diet. Omega 3 fats are important to our health and we want to see how effective both flax seed oil and fish oil are in raising your Omega 3 Score (higher is better). The Omega 3 Score is one of many indicators that may show your personal risk of dying suddenly from a heart attack.

Full description

This study is being conducted to compare the response of individuals to flax seed oil or fish oil, measured by blood lipids. Especially the amount of the long chain omega 3 polyunsaturated fats EPA and DHA will be tested. An omega 3 score for whole blood will be measured. The omega 3 score is the percent sum of omega 3 fats in the blood.

The hypothesis is that 5 grams of fish oil will increase the amount of EPA and DHA in a person's blood to a protective level, and that 30 grams (2 tablespoons) of flax oil will not change the blood levels of EPA significantly and not change the blood concentrations of DHA at all, even for a person consuming a low omega 6 oil diet and following a vegan diet high in fruits and vegetables.

Most of the testing of flax and fish oil has not been done in vegans. This trial will extend this testing to this subpopulation.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must have followed the Hallelujah Diet (or very similar diet) for at least the last two years,
• Must have stable body weight (not gained or lost more than 5 pounds of weight over the last three months)

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy (all pregnant women should take fish oil, not flax seed oil)
• Currently using fish oil, or flax seed oil,EPA, DHA, or flax seed oil with added DHA
• Eating more than 2 teaspoons of flax seed per day
• Diabetes (fish oil may affect blood sugar levels)
• Generally poor health

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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13 participants in 1 patient group

Flax Oil and then Fish Oil

Experimental group

Description:

All people in the study will use the flax seed oil and then the fish oil.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: fish oil

Dietary Supplement: Organic flax seed oil