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NCT Number: NCT00074633

Evaluating "Health at Every Size"(HAES) as an Alternative Obesity Treatment Model

Increasingly more individuals are trying to lose weight. Indeed, many women, regardless of their size, experience a life-long battle and preoccupation with their weight. Despite the attention to weight and the increase in diet behavior, the incidence of obesity continues to rise. There is little data to show improved long term success for the majority of participants who engage in weight loss behaviors.

The specific aim is to improve the psychological and metabolic health of obese women with a history of chronic dieting through encouraging "Health at Every Size" (HAES). This treatment model emphasizes "intutitive eating," i.e., internal regulation of eating (responding to cues of hunger, appetite and satiety). The HAES model is being compared to the current standard of care in obesity treatment, energy restriction dieting, which encourages cognitive control of eating and weight reduction.

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Key information

Conditions

Hypercholesterolemia Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Cardiovascular Diseases Depression Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Dyslipidemias Endocrine System Diseases Glucose Metabolism Disorders Hyperlipidemias Hypertension Lipid Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Vascular Diseases

Age range

30 year–45 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Nutrition Department, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

  • Caucasian;
  • female;
  • age 30-45 years;
  • Body Mass Index (BMI)>30 m/kg2;
  • non-smoker;
  • not pregnant or lactating;
  • Restraint Scale (Herman and Polivy, 1988) score >15, indicating a history of chronic dieting;
  • no recent myocardial infarction;
  • no active neoplasms, Type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes, nor history of cerebrovascular or renal disease.

Treatment and study plan

Health at Every Size (HAES)

Behavioral

Diet (Traditional, moderate energy restriction)

Behavioral

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

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Collaborators

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • University of California, Davis

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2000
First posted
Dec 19, 2003
Registry last updated
Jan 13, 2010

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