NCT01530724

Diet and Body Composition

Effect of Weight-loss Diet Strategies and Exercise on Dynamics of Body Fat Depots and Metabolic Rate

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 224 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that differential dynamics in fat depots in response to two opposing dietary strategies mediate the beneficial metabolic effects during weight loss and regain phases.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Weight-loss diet strategy (+) exercise (PA)	Weight-loss diet strategy with a free gym membership; monthly 60-minute educational workshops; 3 sessions of workout per week of mostly aerobic training
OTHER	weight loss (-) exercise (PA)	Weight-loss diet strategy without exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2012-02-10
• Last updated: 2020-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel