Exploring the Role of Peanuts in Enhancing Healthy Weight Gain in Athletic Individuals
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 33
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Total Body Mass (Weight)
研究概览
简要总结
Many athletes and military personnel desire weight gain primarily as lean mass to improve performance and effectiveness in military/sport endeavors. While much is known about the energy restriction required to reduce body weight, very little is understood about energy and macronutrients needed to promote healthy gains in body weight and lean mass. Typically, athletes are encouraged to increase calorie intake by ~500 kcal/day with an emphasis on adequate protein and carbohydrate, and judicious inclusion of healthy fat-containing calorically-dense foods, including peanuts and peanut butter. This study proposes to evaluate the effect of a 10-week diet and exercise regimen designed to promote healthy weight gain. This will include increasing energy intake by 500 additional kcal/day (above weight maintenance diet) through daily provision of either peanut-based whole foods/snacks (peanut group) or a similar, high-carbohydrate, peanut-free snack (control group) along with a supervised strength training regimen. Results will serve as an important first step in helping understand the gaps in knowledge related to healthy weight gain, designing better weight gain meal plans, not only in athletes and military personnel, but also in clinical populations where promotion of weight gain is advocated.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
盲法说明
Both the investigators and participants are aware of the group assignment since the foods prepared and provided (peanut-containing or no peanut snacks) cannot be masked.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 40 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Interested in gaining 5 pounds of body weight to enhance effectiveness in sport, fitness, or military training/competition.
- •Willing to eat 500 kcal/d and weight train 3x/wk for 10 weeks
- •Have weight trained in the past 12 months
- •Not taking medications or dietary supplements that influence study results
- •Non-smoker
- •Without any major medical problems (including high blood pressure or coronary heart disease)
排除标准
- •Nut, peanut, tree nut or legume allergy
- •No weight training experience
- •Orthopedic limitations that affect ability to weight train
- •Currently taking dietary supplements or prescribed pharmacological agents that may affect lean tissue accretion
- •Current or past anabolic steroid use
- •Have a history of or current signs of disordered eating
- •Abnormal levels of thyroid stimulating hormone or hemoglobin, serum lipids (e.g., fasting triglycerides >150 mg/dL and/or total cholesterol >200 mg/dL)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Total Body Mass (Weight)
时间窗: 1-min laboratory measurement assessed at the baseline, 3-wk, 7-wk, and 11-week test sessions.
Participants will be weighed on a digital scale wearing standardized lab clothes at all scheduled testing sessions throughout the study.
Change in Lean Body Mass
时间窗: 10-min laboratory measurement assessed at the baseline, 3-wk, 7-wk and 11-week test sessions.
Participants will undergo a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scan wearing standardized lab clothing at all scheduled testing sessions throughout the study. The scan analysis provides body composition results, including lean (fat-free) mass (kg).
次要结局
- Change in Resting Metabolic Rate(60-min laboratory measurement assessed at the baseline, 3-week, and 11-week test sessions.)
- Change in Testosterone Levels(5-min laboratory measurement assessed at the baseline, 3-week, 7-week, and 11-week test sessions.)
- Change in Insulin-Like Growth Factor Levels(5-min laboratory measurement assessed at the baseline, 3-week, 7-week, and 11-week test sessions.)
研究者
Dawnine Enette Larson-Meyer
Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University