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Brief title
Health condition
Psychological symptoms, physical symptoms, healthy diets, paleo diet
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
: Four aspects of feasibility will be studied. First, the amount of time needed to recruit 35 participants. Second, the percentage of participants that completes the study. Third, the extent to which the participants followed the two diets, Fourth, representativeness of our participants for the normal population.
Secondary outcome
Effect size on physical and psychological complaints.
Background summary
Different studies have shown that a hunter-gatherer type diet is effective in improving glucose regulation an lipid profile. This research focusses on the question of this type of diet also reduces the number of physical en psychological symptoms.
The main objective is to test feasibility of a cross-over study comparing the effect of two healthy diets on physical an psychological symptoms. The secondairy aim is the estimate effect size. In this cross-over designed studie, 25 individuals of 18 years or older from the normal population will be included. Each participant will eat according to the Dutch Consensus Diet during 4 weeks and according to the Palaeolithic Diet during 4 weeks. Four aspects of feasibility will be studied. First, the amount of time needed to recruit 35 participants. Second, the percentage of participants that completes the study. Third, the extent to which the participants followed the two diets, Fourth, representativeness of our participants for the normal population. Furthermore, we will estimate effect size on physical and psychological complaints.
Study objective
Different studies have shown that a hunter-gatherer type diet is effective in improving glucose regulation and lipid profile. I want to investigate if the hypothese that this type of diet also reduces the number of physical and psychological symptoms can be proved.
Study design
At t=0 a intake questionnaire will be administered.
At t=0, t=4 and and t=8 weeks a questionnaire about the physical and psychological complaints will be administered.
Every week a nutrition questionnaire will be administered.
Intervention
Each participant will eat according to the Dutch Consensus Diet during 4 weeks and according to the Palaeolithic Diet during 4 weeks.
Inclusion criteria
- 18 years or older
- Good understanding and knowlegde of the Dutch language
- Being willing to follow both of the diets for four weeks.
Exclusion criteria
- Following a pottasium-restricted diet
- Pregnancy
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL5391 |
| NTR-old | NTR5492 |
| Other | NL53798.042.15 : M15.177545 |