The Effects of Lowering Dietary Carbohydrates on Health, Exercise Performance and Wellbeing-related Outcomes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in the time to exhaustion
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of the study is to investigate the long-term effects of the ketogenic diet and exercise (including interactions) on health markers, exercise performance and wellbeing outcomes in sedentary overweight individuals.
详细描述
Intentional nutritional ketosis induced by the low carbohydrate diet is an intensively discussed topic of many scientific as well as non-scientific discussions throughout the areas of healthy living, the sports sciences and often used now for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. It has been demonstrated that long-term low-carbohydrate diet is more effective for weight loss and cardiovascular and metabolic risk factor reduction than a low-fat diet. In light of conflicting theories of best practice surrounding a polarized topic that impacts human health and daily work performance, the primary aim of this research project is to examine how low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets affect health markers, exercise performance and wellbeing outcomes in sedentary overweight individuals. Each study subject will be randomized into one of the four arms of the study and will undergo a 12-week intervention, with the exception of the study subjects in the control group, who will undergo no intervention for the period of 12 weeks.
The project outcomes are of immense importance for the investigator's global human health, focus on a unique holistic perspective and have the potential to contribute towards much-needed adjustments in public health recommendations.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
盲法说明
No masking will be used in this study.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •BMI 25.00 - 40.00 kg/m2
- •non-smokers
- •non-excessive alcohol intake (self-reported, ≥ to 2 drinks/day for men or ≥1 drink/day for women)
- •willing to accept random assignment
- •low active individuals over the last 1 year, i.e. no specific sports training or regular exercise (up to once a week) and self-reported physical activity < 150 min/week (IPAQ)
- •no evidence of liver, renal, metabolic, and cardiopulmonary disease and dis-eases contraindicating physical activity, no cancer, no psychiatric illness
- •Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) pass
- •body weight stable for the last 2 months and not actively on a weight loss plan
- •prediabetes state allowed (impaired fasting glucose level, i.e. 5.6 - 6.9 mmol/l; HbA1c 5.7 - 6.4 %)
排除标准
- •pregnancy, lactation
- •any specific diet (e.g. vegetarian)
- •use of hypoglycemic, lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, psychiatric medications or medications known to affect body weight or energy expenditure; any medication not noted allowed if the individual had been stable while taking such medication for at least 3 months prior to baseline data collection
结局指标
主要结局
Change in the time to exhaustion
时间窗: 12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks)
All study subjects will undergo the Graded Exercise Test, with measuring of the time to exhaustion in minutes.
Change in cardiorespiratory variables - oxygen consumption
时间窗: 12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks)
All study subjects will undergo the Graded Exercise Test, with measuring of the oxygen consumption (L/min).
Change in cardiorespiratory variables - heart rate
时间窗: 12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks)
All study subjects will undergo the Graded Exercise Test, with measuring of the heart rate (beats per minute).
次要结局
- Biochemical analysis - capillary blood(12 weeks (2 times/week))
- Anthropometrics - body weight(12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks))
- Anthropometrics - DXA(12 weeks (baseline + outcome))
- InBody (bioimpedance)(12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks))
- Anthropometrics - body height(12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks))
- Anthropometrics - waist circumference(12 weeks (baseline + every four weeks))
- Biochemical analysis - venous blood(12 weeks (2 times/week))