Status:
COMPLETED
Paleolithic Diet and Exercise Study
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, San Francisco
Conditions:
Diet
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-55 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
If eating a "Paleolithic" diet helps improve these diseases, this would be the first step in both improving people's health as they get older as well as contributing to future national dietary guideli...
Detailed Description
Because genetic evolutionary changes occur slowly in Homo sapiens, and because the traditional diet of Homo sapiens underwent dramatic changes within recent times, modern humans are better physiologic...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age \>= 18 years and \<= 55 years
- On no medications
- Body mass index (BMI) between 18 and 29.9 kg/m2
- Normal renal and hepatic function
- Subjects who report moderate intensity exercising \<= three times a week for 30 minutes or less, who then qualify by exercise testing with a VO2max at or below age- and gender-matched controls
Exclusion
- Subjects who must follow a specific diet
- Subjects on any daily medications
- Subjects unwilling to follow the diet specified
- Subjects unable to do the exercise testing
- Pregnant women
- Subjects who are unable to understand the consent form.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2007
Estimated Enrollment :
10 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00360516
Start Date
November 1 2005
End Date
December 1 2007
Last Update
June 29 2011
Active Locations (1)
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UCSF 505 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco, California, United States, 94143