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Filter by:We will recruit overweight/ obese participants between the age of 18 and 65 with chronic nonspecific low back pain . The participants will be randomly assigned to one of two interventions (each lasting 10 weeks). All interventions will be delivered online and will be a combination of online education material and face-to-face video calls with a physical therapist. The first group (experimental intervention) will receive a behavioral weight reduction program combined with pain neuroscience education plus cognition-targeted exercise therapy. Participants in the second group (control intervention) will receive pain neuroscience education and cognition-targeted exercise therapy alone. Allocation to the groups will be at random. Participants and assessors will be blinded for group allocation. The primary outcomes is pain intensity. Secondary outcomes include other pain related outcomes, body composition, physical activity, sedentary behavior, dietary intake and function.
The present protocol aims to evaluate the effect of two different 16-week High-intensity interval training (HIIT) programs on daily physical activity, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, eating behaviour, enjoyment and quality of life in overweight women. Methods: Ninety overweight women (25 - 50 years old) with a body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2 will be randomly assigned to three groups of 30 participants: a remote home-based HIIT intervention group; a traditional HIIT intervention group; and a non-exercise control group. Both intervention groups will undergo a 16-week progressive HIIT program following the Tabata method. Participants will be assessed at baseline, 4th, 8th, and after 16-week for physical activity, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, eating behaviour, enjoyment and quality of life. The study will have a 16-week follow-up post intervention. Results: The participant's enrolment will begin in December 2021, and investigators will anticipate the study completion by the mid of 2022. Conclusions: The HIIT programs might have beneficial effects on daily physical activity, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness and overall quality of life in overweight women. Moreover, it might be a more enjoyable form of exercise, once it is performed faster than other exercise forms. As a beneficial side effect, these healthy behaviours might have a favourable impact on women's eating behaviours. This study results are expected to add health and well-being professionals' evidence-based knowledge to create strategies and design home-based exercise interventions.
The number and proportion of people aged 60 years old and over is increasing worldwide. Ageing is characterized by a progressive loss of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to death. This deterioration is the primary risk factor for major chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders. The incidence of chronic conditions frequently rises sharply with age, after long exposure to unhealthful lifestyles involving the consumption of unhealthy diets and physical inactivity. Consequently, integrated dietary strategies and actions are required to promote healthy ageing and target major causes of morbidity and mortality in senior populations. The promising field of precision nutrition is rising as a therapeutic approach that aims to design tailored dietary interventions to prevent and manage chronic diseases. Indeed, precision nutrition approaches contemplate the interindividual heterogeneity caused by genetic/epigenetic dissimilarities, individual facets such as age and gender, the lifestyle and environmental exposome diversity, microbiome variations, and singular behavioral/psychological features. On the other hand, the inclusion of potentially bioactive compounds and functional foods as promoters of healthy aging within personalised dietary patterns could be an effective strategy to delay the aging process and age-related chronic diseases. One of the main limitations of a dietary prescription is the lack of compliance, due to the complexity of the prescription itself and/or the lack of commitment of the individual. The inclusion of digital tools to empower and motivate individuals and to support them in the management of the dietary strategy could overcome this limitation. With this background, the general objective of this investigation is to design precision nutritional strategies based on the inclusion of functional foods and digital tools for preventing age-related chronic diseases in pre-senior and senior populations. Additionally, this study proposes alternative tools for cognitive assessments increasing the accessibility to cognitive assessment tools for this population as well as an innovative digital tool for cognitive stimulation which is personalized, monitored, and evidence-based.
Evidence from previous studies supports a strong relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and reduced cardiac risk. This could be mediated via improvements on blood pressure, platelet function and vascular reactivity. Certain vitamins and polyphenols found in fruits and vegetables, have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects and play a major role on the function of immune cells. Previous studies have also demonstrated the importance of omega-3 fatty acids on humans' health and their positive effects on the cardiovascular system and blood lipids regulation, as well as their involvement on inflammatory response. Nutritional regimens with adequate intake of micronutrients, fruit and vegetables, omega-3 fatty acids, low in sugar and saturated fats, such as the Mediterranean diet or vegetarian diets, can reduce chronic inflammation and oxidative stress and improve cardiovascular risk profile. Considering that the population's fruit and vegetable and omega-3 intakes are below recommendations, whole food-based supplements could provide an accessible form of supplementation to bridge the gap between actual and recommended intakes. This study is aiming to assess whether long-term separate ingestions of an encapsulated juice powder concentrate and a plant-based omega fatty acid supplement, or a combined ingestion of the two, can affect biomarkers of cardiovascular health, low-grade inflammation and indicators of biological aging in older adults.
The study will be conducted as a randomized controlled trial with four parallel arms including four dairy products. We will investigate the health effects of including yogurt in the diet through a 16-weeks intervention period among 100 volunteering males with symptoms of the metabolic syndrome. The study has a total duration of 20 weeks as a wash out period of four weeks will be initiated prior to the intervention.
Soybean peptides are a mixture of active peptides obtained from the hydrolysis of soybean protein, which have biological activities such as antioxidant, blood pressure lowering, anti-fatigue and lipid lowering, etc. They can regulate food intake, increase satiety, and reduce fat body ratio by reducing cholesterol and triglyceride content and stimulating CCK secretion.Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a set of linoleic acid with conjugated unsaturated double bond, the location and structure of the isomers have been approved by the ministry of health in China as a new resource food , widely used in areas such as health care products, functional foods and food additives, animal experiments showed that it has reduce tumor, atherosclerosis, obesity risk.Therefore, in this study, the effect of conjugated linoleic acid combined with soybean peptide on overweight and obese people was investigated in a randomized controlled manner.
The primary objective of this project is to provide new knowledge through a comprehensive set of analyses that investigate the complex interplay between regular mango intake, gut microbial structure/ function, mechanisms of inflammation and insulin sensitivity in over weight (OW)/obese (OB) human subjects with chronic low-grade inflammation.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the Noom Healthy Weight Program, a digital behavior change weight loss intervention, creates a positive relationship with food, compared to a waitlist control group.
This study is a proof of concept study to demonstrate that EMP16-02, a fixed dose combination (FDC) of orlistat and acarbose in an oral multiple-unit modified release (MR) formulation leads to a clinically relevant decrease in body weight. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of treatment with two different doses of EMP16 02 (120 mg orlistat/40 mg acarbose and 150 mg orlistat/50 mg acarbose) for 26 weeks on reducing body weight in obese patients.
This is a single arm phase II study designed to determine the effects of pharmacotherapy and a remote behavioral weight loss intervention on weight loss in breast cancer survivors who are overweight or obese, and the impact of successful weight loss on serum biomarkers and gut microbiome.