Lifestyle Changes in Fatty Liver; Additive Effect of Honey Intake

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Fatty Liver, Nonalcoholic

Treatments: Behavioral: honey intake and lifestyle changes; Behavioral: lifestyle changes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06596109

P.T.REC/012/005163

Details and patient eligibility

About

honey is a natural functional food used in control cardiovascular risk factors but its effect on fatty liver is not investigated

Full description

Forty fatty liver (non-alcoholic from) patients with obesity are included to be divided into group 1 who will contain 20 patients who will receive honey intake (orally, as a daily total dose of 2 g/kg, this dose will be divided to three equal subdoses, every dose will be administered before meal), low calorie diet, and treadmill walking (40 minutes per session, three times per week) for 12 weeks. Group 2 who will contain 20 patients who will receive low calorie diet, and treadmill walking (40 minutes per session, three times per week) for 12 weeks.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fatty liver (non alcoholic form)
• both sexes included
• obese subjects (class I)

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac insult
• respiratory insult
• renal insult
• lower limb insult

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

honey intake and lifestyle changes

Experimental group

Description:

Twenty fatty liver (non-alcoholic from) patients with obesity are included as 20 patients who will receive honey intake (orally, as a daily total dose of 2 g/kg, this dose will be divided to three equal subdoses, every dose will be administered before meal), low calorie diet, and treadmill walking (40 minutes per session, three times per week) for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: honey intake and lifestyle changes

lifestyle changes

Active Comparator group

Description:

Twenty fatty liver (non-alcoholic from) patients with obesity are included as 20 patients who will receive low calorie diet, and treadmill walking (40 minutes per session, three times per week) for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: lifestyle changes