Active clinical trials for "Weight Loss"

Overweight and obese adults recruited from the primary care setting (n=150) will be enrolled in a 6-month randomized trial of the INTERVENTION versus CONTROL. Both groups will receive usual medical care, printed materials, and educational text messages. The INTERVENTION group will also receive personalized coaching and feedback, as well as peer support, via text message. The investigators hypothesize that compared to those in the Control group, patients in the Intervention group will lose more weight and demonstrate more favorable changes in fruit and vegetable intake, exercise, and social support for weight loss.

The study hypothesis is to investigate whether a moderate weight loss (i.e. a weight reduction of at least 5%) could improve the response rate to a suboptimal dose of cyclosporine in patients with severe psoriasis.

Using a 2x2 complete factorial design, approximately 140 obese men and women who may or may not have type 2 diabetes will be randomized to one of two conditions (70 in each condition): (a) a high fiber diet, or (b) a low-carbohydrate diet. Participants will be instructed to follow their assigned diets for 1 year. Outcome measures of interest will include participants' BMI, waist circumference, blood lipids (total, HDL, and LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides), C-reactive protein, and gastrointestinal peptides. Participants will be recruited from the Loma Linda and San Bernardino city area in southern California.

This trial is conducted in North America. The aim of this clinical trial is to evaluate the potential of liraglutide to maintain long term weight loss in obese non-diabetic subjects, as well as in overweight subjects who have medical problems such as hypertension (high blood pressure) or dyslipidaemia (an abnormal amount of lipids in the blood). Trial has following trial periods: A 12-week run-in period (from week -12 to week 0) followed by a 56-week main trial period (weeks 0-56) and a 12-week follow-up period (weeks 56-68).

This is a six (6) month, single center, randomized, double-blind, parallel, controlled-feeding weight-loss study comparing two dietary groups (triglyceride and olestra) in pre-diabetic obese women.

This study will investigate how to better predict why some individuals gain or lose weight more easily than others. It will examine whether the increase in the amount of energy a body burns in 24 hours with overeating or the decrease over 24 hours with fasting can help determine how easily someone gains or loses weight. Healthy people between 18 and 60 years of age who have a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 kg/m(2) and 24 kg/m(2) (for overfeeding study) or a BMI greater than 27 kg/m(2) with a body weight less than 350 pounds (weight loss study) may be eligible for this study. The study requires a 10-week admission to the NIH Clinical Center (2-week baseline, 6-week overfeeding/weight loss, 2-week post-weight change). Participants undergo the following tests and procedures during the hospital admission: Medical history, physical examination and laboratory studies Questionnaires to assess eating behavior, food preferences, body composition, and activity level Body composition assessment (height, weight, waist circumference, and fat mass and muscle content through DXA and MRI scans) Oral glucose tolerance test Meal test to measure the response of certain hormones to food Activity monitors to determine activity level Metabolic chamber study to measure calories burned over 24 hours and monitor body temperature Free-living energy use study to measure calories burned under normal home conditions over 7 days Fat and muscle biopsies Dietary intervention: Measurements of food intake and energy loss over a 6-week overfeeding (1.5 times the subject s normal food intake) or weight loss (one-half the subject s normal food intake) program Followup procedures after the inpatient stay: Height and weight measurements at 6 months (overfeeding study participants) and monthly for the first year, at 3-month intervals for the second year, and then yearly for 3 more years (weight loss study participants) Yearly visits (2-night inpatient stay) for all participants for repeat meal test, DXA, oral glucose tolerance test, behavioral questionnaires and, in women who can become pregnant, pregnancy test

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a modified behavioral treatment for weight loss that includes one-on-one treatment for individuals struggling to lose weight is associated with more weight loss than a standard behavioral treatment.

We propose to add a treatment preference component to a larger study testing standard behavioral treatment (SBT) for weight loss without specific food group restriction vs standard behavioral treatment with gradual elimination of meat, poultry, and fish [a lacto-ovo-vegetarian (LOV) meal plan]. Eligible respondents will be randomized to one of two conditions: Treatment Preference-Yes/No. Individuals in the Treatment Preference-Yes will be assigned to their choice (SBT or SBT+LOV), those in Treatment Preference-No will be randomized to either SBT or SBT+LOV without regard to their preference.

To evaluate a standardized weight-loss program as treatment option for obesity and type 2 diabetes, changes in body composition and metabolic control are investigated in obese patients with diabetes.

The investigators examined feasibility and acceptability of a non-restrictive diet focused on increasing dietary fiber and lean protein for weight loss. Fifteen obese adults enrolled in a 12-week assessment which included 6 bi-weekly individual dietary counseling sessions to attain a daily goal of higher fiber (>35 g/day) and lean protein (0.8 g per kilogram/day of individual's ideal body weight).