Considering Patient Diet Preferences to Optimize Weight Loss

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Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

Obesity is increasingly common and can lead to decreased quality of life, increased medical and psychiatric illness, high health care costs, and early mortality. The problem of obesity is as great in veterans as it is in the general public. Adherence to dietary therapy for obesity is often inadequate, possibly because patients' food preferences are not considered during dietary counseling. Allowing patients to choose a diet based on their food preferences may increase their motivation to adhere to diet counseling. This, in turn, could enhance their weight loss success and, ultimately, reduce the many health complications and costs of obesity. The proposed study will examine whether assessing a person's food preferences, and then allowing the person to choose from two commonly prescribed diets, results in greater weight loss success.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01152359

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

207

Starts

2011-05-01

Expected to finish

2013-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-12

Who can join

Age: any, up to 74. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Body mass index 30 or greater
• Stable health
• Desire to lose weight
• Agrees to attend regular visits
• Access to telephone and reliable transportation
• Has a Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) provider

You may not qualify if…

• Certain chronic or unstable disease (kidney or liver disease, type 1 diabetes, hemoglobin A1c 12% or more, insulin use, unstable heart disease, transplant recipient, blood pressure 160/100 or greater, fasting blood triglycerides 600 or greater, LDL cholesterol 190 or greater)
• Pregnancy, breastfeeding, lack of birth control
• Active dementia, psychiatric illness, or substance abuse (past year)
• Weight loss therapy in previous month
• Pacemaker or defibrillator
• Enrolled in another study that might affect measurements
• Previously in study of low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet for weight loss
• Unable to complete all study measures

Where it is running

• Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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