The Effect of White Sweet Potato Meal Replacement on Weight Control of the Obesity

Taipei Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Overweight

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: White sweet potato diet

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02935179

N201604045

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to use white-skinned sweet potato as the main material for weight control for overweight and obesity, the non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes) are also included. All high quality sweet potato are provided by CAES in Taiwan to produce special nutrient food and health food that to do functional study in Shih Chien University and Taipei Medical University. In this study, the investigators will recruit overweight and obesity subjects that divide into white sweet potato group (experimental group) and no intervention group (control group) by using randomized, parallel and open clinical study in sixty days.

Full description

All subjects will be evaluated the body weight and clinical nutrition assessment such as postural measurement, urine test and blood biomarker examination.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 50 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

24≦ BMI≦30

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant and lactating women
Patients within six months after surgery
Mental illness or depression
Suffering from cancer, ulcers, acute respiratory infections, dialysis, acute hepatitis and other diseases
Those who have taken "additional nutritional supplements" habit