Project Healthy Eating in Adults. A Study on the Health Effects of Fish Intake in Overweight Adults (FINS)

University of Bergen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Overweight or Obese Adults

Treatments: Other: Meat Group; Other: Salmon Group; Other: Cod Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02025920

2013/558

Details and patient eligibility

About

It has previously been observed that increased fish intake improves the metabolic health of overweight and obese adults, and animal protein improved metabolic health of obese rats. In this project the investigators will investigate whether increased intake of fish or meat improves metabolic health in overweight/obese adults aged 20-55 years when replacing processed food. The hypothesis is that increased intake of unprocessed fish or meat will improve metabolic health in adults as measured by glucose tolerance, lipid metabolism and inflammatory markers.

Enrollment: 183 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI > 27
• 20-55 years
• healthy

Exclusion criteria

• diagnosed diseases such as diabetes, CVD, intestinal diseases, arthritis
• prescription medications affecting the metabolism of glucose, lipids or the immune system
• use of supplements containing long chain n-3 fatty acids
• high intake of fish
• food allergy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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183 participants in 3 patient groups

Salmon Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will eat 150g salmon for dinner, 3 times per week for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Salmon Group

Cod Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will eat 150g cod for dinner, 3 times per week for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Cod Group

Meat Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will eat 150g mixed meat for dinner, 3 times per week for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Meat Group