Effects of Sucrose Added Blind to the Diet Over Eight Weeks on Body Mass and Weight in Men

NCT ID: NCT04804397

Last Updated: 2021-03-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-06-30

Brief Summary

Background: Sugar intake, especially in liquid, correlates with obesity. Yet, whether it is a special cause of obesity is less clear. Few experimental studies exist.

Aim: To replicate the investigators' previous 4 week experiments on women with men over 8 weeks to ascertain if: they gain weight given sucrose soft drinks; mood is affected; energy intake is affected.

Participants: 80 men BMI 25-35, aged 30-55. Procedure: After a week of baseline, over eight weeks single blind 40 men received soft drinks containing sucrose (1650 KJ, 97g carbohydrate per day), 40 received control drinks. A three-day food diary with mood ratings and activity levels was completed during baseline and weeks 1, 4 and 8 of the experiment. Body mass was recorded weekly with other anthropometric measures.

Conditions

Overweight

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Sucrose

Sucrose: 1l sucrose sweetened soft drink per day for 8 weeks (1650 KJ, 97g carbohydrate per day) as 4 25cl drinks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Sucrose

Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Sucrose sweetened soft drinks

Aspartame

Aspartame: 1l aspartame sweetened soft drink per day for 8 weeks as 4 25cl drinks

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Sucrose

Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Sucrose sweetened soft drinks

Interventions

Sucrose

Sucrose sweetened soft drinks

Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Other Intervention Names

Aspartame; Aspartame sweetened soft drinks as comparator

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• BMI 25-35

Exclusion Criteria

• Diabetes,
• other health problems,
• medication,
• dislike of soft drinks

• Minimum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Hull

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Richard Hammersley

Professor of Health Psychology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Richard Hammersley, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Hull

Other Identifiers

PSY4272

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id