Monday is Fasting Day - Non-Randomized Trial on Intermittent Fasting (MIFT)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Other: Fasting / Caloric Restriction; Other: Healthy Diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02253056

MIFT-Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the effects of one regular fasting day per week over a total period of 8 weeks compared to a normal-eating habits among healthy volunteers.

Full description

Participants in the intervention group receive an initial group training for fasting. Then all participants will observe one fixed fasting day per week (monday) over a total period of eight weeks.

Participants in the control group receive an initial group training for healthy diet according to current German guidelines (DGE). Moreover, they will receive the same offer as in the intervention group at the end of the 8-week study period. Until then the control group participants follow a regular healthy diet.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18 -65 yrs
• written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• severe chronic comorbidity
• eating disorders
• pregnancy
• planed pregnancy
• simultaneous participation in other trials

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Fasting

Experimental group

Description:

Intermittent fasting over 8 weeks (one day per week)

Treatment:

Other: Fasting / Caloric Restriction

Healthy diet

Active Comparator group

Description:

Regular healthy diet according to current German (DGE) guidelines for healthy nutrition.

Treatment:

Other: Healthy Diet