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ObesityPROOFNCT00565149

PROOF: PROtein OverFeeding Effect on Body Weight

A study testing PROOF in people with Obesity, run by Pennington Biomedical Research Center at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

This study is designed to determine the effects of dietary protein content on overfeeding. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 35 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Obesity
What is being tested?
PROOF
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
60 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Mar 2005to Mar 2016
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 35 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Have a BMI of 19-30kg/m2 A cutpoint of 26kg/m2 will be used to allocate treatment across the three diets. See the statistics section for more detail.
  • Are willing to eat all of the study foods even when full
  • Are willing to eat only foods provided by Pennington and all of the foods provided
  • Are willing to live at Pennington for 10-12 weeks possibly without leaving the metabolic unit the entire time
  • Are willing to avoid exercise while in the inpatient phase of the study
  • Age 18 - 35

Who cannot join

  • Participants are ineligible to participate in the study if they…
  • Smoke
  • Have Diabetes
  • Have claustrophobia
  • Have a Fasting Blood Sugar >110
  • Have a history of cardiovascular disease
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  • Have an average screening blood pressure >140/90
  • Have a history of a major psychiatric, addictive or eating disorder or any psychosocial or scheduling factors that could impede study outcomes
  • Post obese (self-reported BMI) must never have had a BMI greater than 32
  • Exercise more than 2 hours per week
  • Unable to complete VO2 max test.
  • Weight gain or loss of > 3kg in the last 6 months
  • Have significant renal, hepatic, endocrine, pulmonary or hematological disease, or a history of gout
  • Have had previous GI surgery, Obstructive disease of the GI tract, Hypermotility disorder or a history of problems of impairment of the gag reflex.
  • Corticosteroid use in the last 2 Months
  • You are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Have Irregular menstrual cycles
  • Use Depo-Provera, hormone implant or estrogen replacement therapy
  • Have an allergy to PABA (a component of a B-vitamin often found in sunscreen)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70808

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About this study

Official title: Dietary Protein Content Determines Weight Gain During High Fat Overfeeding

This study is designed to determine the effects of dietary protein content on overfeeding.

Read the detailed description

When body weight increases, the expenditure of energy increases as a mechanism to dissipate the excess calories. The role of diet composition in over-feeding/energy dissipation in humans is unknown. We propose that:

  1. High and low protein diet will result in less weight gain as compared to a moderate protein diet during a 56d high fat overfeeding.
  2. Increase in energy expenditure and spontaneous physical activity, adjusted for lean and fat mass will be greater in the high and low protein diets as compared to a moderate protein diet.
  3. the average size of the fat cells and the pattern of genes expressed in the adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells will "predict" which group of subjects will gain the most weight (and fat mass) independent of the level of the protein in the diet.
Conditions
Obesity
Being tested
PROOF
Medical subject headings
Obesity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • PROOFBehavioural

    Also called Overfeeding with different protein levels.

    dietary overfeeding with high, low or normal protein content

Study groups in NCT00565149
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
1ExperimentalNormal Protein (15%) diet
Receives: Behavioral: PROOF
2ExperimentalLow Protein (5%) diet
Receives: Behavioral: PROOF
3ExperimentalHigh Protein (25%) diet
Receives: Behavioral: PROOF

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. To determine the effect of overfeeding 40% above energy balance with a low (5%) or high (25%) vs. normal (15%) protein diet on body weight and body composition as well as energy expenditure and its components.

    Measured: baseline and after 8 weeks of overfeeding

Secondary outcomes (1)

  1. To relate the baseline characteristics of the subjects [fat cell size, pattern of gene expression, body composition, family history of obesity, etc] to the degree of weight / fat gain during overfeeding.

    Measured: baseline and after 8 Weeks of over feeding

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted29 Nov 2007 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2005
  3. Primary completionMar 2008
  4. Study completionMar 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
60 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00565149
Sponsor's protocol ID
PBRC 25007
Other IDs
2005-34323-15741, 2005
Acronym
PROOF
Status last verified
Aug 2021
First submitted
27 Nov 2007
Last updated
25 Aug 2021
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Hochsmann C, Fearnbach N, Dorling JL, Myers CA, Zhang D, Apolzan JW, Stewart TM, Bray GA, Ravussin E, Martin CK. Effect of 8 weeks of supervised overfeeding on eating attitudes and behaviors, eating disorder symptoms, and body image: Results from the PROOF and EAT studies. Eat Behav. 2021 Dec;43:101570. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101570. Epub 2021 Oct 1.

    PubMed 34655863

  • Bray GA, Redman LM, de Jonge L, Rood J, Sutton EF, Smith SR. Plasma fatty acyl-carnitines during 8 weeks of overfeeding: relation to diet energy expenditure and body composition: the PROOF study. Metabolism. 2018 Jun;83:1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2018.01.019. Epub 2018 Feb 8.

    PubMed 29374510

  • Bray GA, Redman LM, de Jonge L, Rood J, Sutton EF, Smith SR. Plasma Amino Acids During 8 Weeks of Overfeeding: Relation to Diet Body Composition and Fat Cell Size in the PROOF Study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Feb;26(2):324-331. doi: 10.1002/oby.22087. Epub 2017 Dec 27.

    PubMed 29280309

  • Sutton EF, Bray GA, Burton JH, Smith SR, Redman LM. No evidence for metabolic adaptation in thermic effect of food by dietary protein. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Aug;24(8):1639-42. doi: 10.1002/oby.21541. Epub 2016 Jun 29.

    PubMed 27356102

  • Bray GA, Redman LM, de Jonge L, Rood J, Smith SR. Effect of Three Levels of Dietary Protein on Metabolic Phenotype of Healthy Individuals With 8 Weeks of Overfeeding. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Jul;101(7):2836-43. doi: 10.1210/jc.2016-1313. Epub 2016 May 9.

    PubMed 27159194

  • Bray GA, Redman LM, de Jonge L, Covington J, Rood J, Brock C, Mancuso S, Martin CK, Smith SR. Effect of protein overfeeding on energy expenditure measured in a metabolic chamber. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 Mar;101(3):496-505. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.114.091769. Epub 2015 Jan 14.

    PubMed 25733634

  • Gilmore LA, Ravussin E, Bray GA, Han H, Redman LM. An objective estimate of energy intake during weight gain using the intake-balance method. Am J Clin Nutr. 2014 Sep;100(3):806-12. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.114.087122. Epub 2014 Jul 23.

    PubMed 25057153

  • Lam YY, Redman LM, Smith SR, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Johannsen D, Ravussin E. Determinants of sedentary 24-h energy expenditure: equations for energy prescription and adjustment in a respiratory chamber. Am J Clin Nutr. 2014 Apr;99(4):834-42. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.113.079566. Epub 2014 Feb 5.

    PubMed 24500151

  • Bray GA, Smith SR, de Jonge L, Xie H, Rood J, Martin CK, Most M, Brock C, Mancuso S, Redman LM. Effect of dietary protein content on weight gain, energy expenditure, and body composition during overeating: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2012 Jan 4;307(1):47-55. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1918.

    PubMed 22215165

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing PROOF in people with Obesity, run by Pennington Biomedical Research Center at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 19 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 25 Aug 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

To determine the effect of overfeeding 40% above energy balance with a low (5%) or high (25%) vs. normal (15%) protein diet on body weight and body composition as well as energy expenditure and its components. (time frame: baseline and after 8 weeks of overfeeding). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00565149, which also lists 9 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 25 Aug 2021.

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