Stress and Sugar Synergy (SSS)

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Insulin Resistance; Dyslipidemia; Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Other: sucrose; Other: orange juice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02143011

574149

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objectives of this study are to test the hypotheses that: 1) consumption of beverages sweetened with sucrose will increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease to a greater extent than a naturally-sweetened fruit juice such as orange juice, and 2) chronic psychological stress may augment the adverse metabolic effects of sugar intake. The study intervention consists of 2-week's consumption of 25% of energy as sugar provided either as a sucrose-sweetened beverage or naturally-sweetened orange juice.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Body mass index between 28-35
• Self report of stable body weight during the past six months
• High stress participants: Perceived Stress Scores (PSS) ≥ 24, and the presence of a predefined chronically stressful event as assessed by the Telephone screening questions. (IDS scores are not an inclusion criteria in this group, merely a rule-out for the low stress participants).
• Low stress participants: PSS scores ≤ 8, Inventory for Depressive Symptom (IDS) scores ≤ 14, and the absence of any predefined chronically stressful events as assessed by the telephone screening questions.

Exclusion criteria

• glucose intolerance
• Evidence of liver disorder
• Evidence of kidney disorder
• Evidence of thyroid disorder
• Systolic blood pressure consistently over 140mmHg or diastolic blood pressure over 90mmHg
• Triglycerides > 200mg/dl
• LDL-C > 130mg/dl
• Hemoglobin < 8.5 g/dl
• pregnant or lactating women
• Current, prior (within 12 months), or anticipated use of any hypolipidemic or anti-diabetic agents
• Use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and anti-hypertensive medications
• Any other condition that, in the opinion of the investigators, would put subject at risk
• Strenuous exerciser
• surgery for weight loss
• Diet exclusions: food allergies, special dietary restrictions, habitual ingest of >2 alcoholic beverages/day

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 2 patient groups

orange juice

Other group

Description:

no sugar

Treatment:

Other: sucrose

Other: orange juice

sugar beverage

Other group

Description:

no sugar

Treatment:

Other: sucrose

Other: orange juice