Looking for Personalized Nutrition for Obesity/Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Prevention

This is a randomized, crossover study that includes 1 screening visit and four meal challenge test visits, separated by a 1-2-weeks washout period. The screening will include 2000 people, males and females, to evaluate the genotype frequencies in studied population, and to find carriers of the rare genetic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), who will fulfill all the other inclusion criteria. An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) will be completed at screening visit. Moreover, the fasting blood samples will be collected for genetic analysis, and measurements of blood glucose and lipid metabolism profile, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), hormones/peptides and other factors involved in energy balance regulation. Subjects will be asked to record their daily food intake for 3 days. Assessments of vital signs and body height and weight, waist and hip circumferences, body fat content and body fat distribution, review of concomitant medication/supplement use and inclusion and exclusion criteria, and evaluation of adverse effects will be performed throughout the study. To meal challenge test only men will be included, since the sex hormones may influence the study endpoints. Subjects will be encouraged to maintain their habitual diet during wash-out periods. During the each meal challenge test subjects will consume one of the study meals in random order. The blood will be collected at fasting state and 30, 60, 120, 180 and 240 minutes after meal intake. The energy expenditure and substrate utilization will be measured by indirect calorimetry method at the fasting and postprandially.

Inclusion criteria

• healthy men with normal body weight and with overweight/obesity
• men with metabolic syndrome, hypertension, type 2 diabetes newly diagnosed, or not treated with any medicines
• maintaining the usual diet and lifestyle throughout the study

Exclusion criteria

• infectious or acute diseases in the last 4 weeks before the study visits
• any medicines/dietary supplements consumption in the last 4 weeks before the study visits
• high level of daily physical activity
• the following any special diet or dietary patterns (vegetarian, high-fat etc.)
• the presence of any other significant disease which may affect the results (hormonal disorders, history of any surgeries on gastrointestinal tract, allergies known or suspected, heart failure, history of cancer, any kidney, pancrea and liver diseases, except non-alcoholic fatty liver)
• abusive alcohol consumption
• abusive coffee or energy drinks consumption
• drug consumption