Low Energy Dense, Weight Maintenance, Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Body Weight Decreased

Treatments: Other: control; Other: low energy dense; Other: diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01659450

IUMS (Other Identifier)

Low energy density diet

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators presumed that low energy density (LED) diet consumers will have lower risk of cardiovascular disease and are able to maintain their weight longer .

Full description

Previous studies introduced different dietary interventions for weight loss maintenance. Besides the debate on low fat or low carbohydrate diets, focusing on some food groups including fruits, vegetables and low fat dairies in the diet may be helpful for weight maintenance. However, energy intake is the key factor of weight maintenance. Energy intake will decrease by reducing energy density (ED) of a diet without producing short-term calorie restriction or feeling hunger. There are several studies which showed the beneficial effects of low energy density diets on weight reduction. However, few studies discuses regarding the effects of such diets on weight maintenance.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• who were on weight loss diet for the last one year and additionally, they did not want to lose more weight.
• Non-pregnant, non-lactaries and non-smokers aged 40-70 years included in the present study

Exclusion criteria

• dietary poor compliance

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

Low energy dense

Experimental group

Description:

Diet of the LED group contained 30%fat, 15% protein and 55% carbohydrate. Most of the consumed carbohydrates in the LED diet group were fruits, vegetables and whole grains. In addition, this group received more servings of vegetables groups daily in the form of liquid diets or some menus contain more vegetables

Treatment:

Other: diet

Other: low energy dense

control

Experimental group

Description:

In the group with a control diet, 35% of the energy was provided by fat, 15% by protein and 50% by carbohydrate

Treatment:

Other: diet

Other: control