Reduction in risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus in response to a low-sugar, high-fiber dietary intervention in overweight Latino adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine if reductions in added sugar intake or increases in fiber intake in response to a 16-week intervention were related to improvements in metabolic outcomes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus risk.

Design

Secondary analysis of a randomized control trial.

Setting

Intervention classes at a lifestyle laboratory and metabolic measures at the General Clinical Research Center.

Participants

Fifty-four overweight Latino adolescents (mean [SD] age, 15.5 [1] years). Intervention Sixteen-week study with 3 groups: control, nutrition, or nutrition plus strength training.

Main outcome measures

Body composition by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry; visceral adipose tissue by magnetic resonance imaging; glucose and insulin incremental area under the cu

SUBMITTER: Ventura E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2850811 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature