Status:

COMPLETED

Paleolithic Diet and Exercise Study

Lead Sponsor:

University of California, San Francisco

Conditions:

Diet

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-55 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

If eating a "Paleolithic" diet helps improve these diseases, this would be the first step in both improving people's health as they get older as well as contributing to future national dietary guideli...

Detailed Description

Because genetic evolutionary changes occur slowly in Homo sapiens, and because the traditional diet of Homo sapiens underwent dramatic changes within recent times, modern humans are better physiologic...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age \>= 18 years and \<= 55 years
  • On no medications
  • Body mass index (BMI) between 18 and 29.9 kg/m2
  • Normal renal and hepatic function
  • Subjects who report moderate intensity exercising \<= three times a week for 30 minutes or less, who then qualify by exercise testing with a VO2max at or below age- and gender-matched controls

Exclusion

  • Subjects who must follow a specific diet
  • Subjects on any daily medications
  • Subjects unwilling to follow the diet specified
  • Subjects unable to do the exercise testing
  • Pregnant women
  • Subjects who are unable to understand the consent form.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2005

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

10 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00360516

Start Date

November 1 2005

End Date

December 1 2007

Last Update

June 29 2011

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UCSF 505 Parnassus Ave

San Francisco, California, United States, 94143