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The rates of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are rising across the world. This is especially true in industrialized countries like Canada and the USA. Even though there are many possible causes for these increases. One prominent cause is our refined diet, which greatly lacks dietary fiber. This 'fiber gap' between the amount of fiber actually eaten and the amount that should be eaten is likely promoting these diseases.

It is known that a high fiber diet can benefit health and the health of the gut bacteria. It is also know that these gut microbes can help cause and prevent diseases. When fiber is eaten, it gets broken down not by us, but by our gut microbes. During this process by-products called short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) are made. These SCFA have been shown to promote health. Therefore, it is thought that fiber changes the gut microbes to produce more SCFA, which may improve overall health.

In order to aid our microbes and improve our health we need to find ways to reduce this 'fiber gap'. One possibility is to add fiber to our refined diet. To do so we must first learn how different fibers perform in our gut. This includes how our gut tolerates increasing amounts of fiber, and how our microbes respond. The purpose of this study is to learn how different types of resistant starch perform in our gut, including gastrointestinal tolerance. By doing so we will determine the ideal dose and type of these fibers to use in future studies.


Clinical Trial Description

The investigators propose a 4 week gastrointestinal (GI) assessment study to determine both the ideal dose and type of resistant starch to use in future studies. The following specific aims are offered:

AIM 1: GI Tolerance. Preform a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-four-arm human intervention study to assess the GI tolerance of 3 novel resistant starch type IV (RS4) at dose up to 50 g per day.

Interested participants will be asked to attend a screening visit at Human Nutrition Research Unit, where lifestyle and anthropometric information will be collected to determine eligibility. Eligible participants (N = 40) will be stratified based on gender and randomly assigned to 1 of 4 groups, where they will be asked to supplement their diet for 4 weeks with either a RS4 (experimental arms) or a digestible starch (control arm). The weight of total starch (digestible plus RS) provided in each experimental arm will be dependent on the purity of the individual RS4 products. Subjects will supplement their diet with 10 g, 20 g, 35 g and 50 g of total dietary fiber (as RS) daily over the course of weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The amount of digestible starch provided in the control arm will be equal to the mean amount of total starch provided across the 3 experimental arms. All starch products will be provided in powder form.

Methodologies previously described by Maki et al. will be employed to evaluate the overall GI tolerance of the RS4 products by assessing changes in GI symptom, bowel movement frequency, and bowel movement consistency, and by comparing these changes to those changes observed in the control arm (digestible starch - Maki et al., Int J Food Sci Nutr, 2013). Participants will keep a daily study journal, which included a bowel habits questionnaire, over the course of the 4 week study, and they will also complete weekly GI tolerance and satiety questionnaires during their weekly study visits. Participants will also be asked to complete two 24-h recalls, both prior to starting the dietary intervention and during week 4. All 24-h recalls will be completed online through the Canadian Automated Self-Administered 24h (ASA24) recall system.

AIM 2: Evaluate prebiotic and dose dependent effect on the microbiome. Evaluate the effect of the 3 distinct RS4 types on gut microbiota composition and structure in a dose dependent manner.

Fecal samples will be collected at baseline and at the end of each intervention week (weeks 1-4). Fecal samples will be used to both characterize the fecal microbial community via 16S ribosomal RNA next-generation sequencing, and to quantify fecal short-chain fatty acid concentrations via gas chromatography. Short-term characterization of the fecal microbiome will provide a systematic assessment of the individualized response between 3 structurally distinct types of RS4, while further allowing an intricate assessment of the prebiotic dose effect upon significantly increasing the dose of RS towards 50 g per day. This analysis will provide critical information on how distinct types of RS4 shape the gut microbiome in humans, and which dose is necessary to achieve such effects. ;


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NCT number NCT03255603
Study type Interventional
Source University of Alberta
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date September 1, 2017
Completion date December 22, 2018

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