is Dietary Manipulation of Human Milk Total Fat and Caloric Content Feasible?

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Behavioral: Fat and calorie controlled diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00408980

breastmilk.ctil

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to verify whether dietary manipulations in lactating women allow increasing the fat and caloric content of human milk.

Full description

The aim of this study is to verify whether dietary manipulations in lactating women allow increasing the fat and caloric content of human milk. specifically, we will test the following hypotheses:1) at constant caloric intake, 2 high fat (40% fat, 45% CHO) diets ( margarine e nriched versus butter enriched) lead to higher fat and caloric content of human milk than the low fat diet (5% fat, 80% CHO); and 2) All 3 groups will have strikingly different milk fatty acid profiles (mirroring the dietary fatty acid profile).

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 46 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• breast feeding women
• healthy
• on no medications

Exclusion criteria

• women on medications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind