NCT01539369

The Leeds Women's Wellbeing (LWW) Study

A Study to Investigate the Short and Long Term Effects of Two 12-week Healthy Eating Interventions on Body Weight, Body Composition, Appetite Control, Biomarkers of Health and Subjective Wellbeing in Overweight Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Leeds · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 48 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this parallel design study is to assess the relative effects of two 12-week healthy eating dietary interventions: general healthy eating (Diet A) and general healthy eating combined with advice to increase fibre intake (Diet B) to at least 25g/day (with a large proportion of the fibre intake derived from cereal or wheat bran), in overweight low-fibre consuming premenopausal female adults on body weight change (kg). It is hypothesized that adding fibre to a healthy eating diet (Diet B) would lead to greater weight loss and/or weight loss maintenance than following a healthy eating diet alone (Diet A).

Detailed description

In this randomised, single blind, parallel design study participants were randomly assigned to one of two 12-week healthy eating dietary interventions: Diet A: general healthy eating OR Diet B: general healthy eating combined with advice to increase fibre intake to at least 25g/day (with a large proportion of the fibre intake derived from cereal or wheat bran.

Conditions

• Weight Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Healthy eating diet (Diet A) or healthy eating diet combined with advice to increase fibre intake (Diet B) to at least 25g/day	Participants were randomly assigned to one of two parallel arms: Diet A:healthy eating without extra advice to increase fibre intake or Diet B: healthy eating with extra advice to increase fibre intake to a minimum of 25g/d. Healthy eating advice was based on the British Heart Foundation booklet: "Food Should Be Fun And Healthy". Participants following Diet A were encouraged to eat breakfast cereals and were provided with complementary cereals and snacks low in fibre. Participants following Diet B were encouraged to eat high fibre breakfast cereals and to incorporate wheat bran fibre in other meals. Complementary high fibre cereals and snacks were provided.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-01-01
• Completion: 2012-01-01
• First posted: 2012-02-27
• Last updated: 2014-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom