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Men and Women Needed for Dietary Research Study

    Are you more than a few pounds overweight?

    Do you ever wonder if you are at risk for Type 2 Diabetes?

The Cholesterol Research Center (CRC) can help you answer those questions – and help you lose weight, too.

Benefits:
  • Free Lunch and Dinner Entrees,
  • Information about your risk for Diabetes, and
  • 6 weeks of weight loss program and consultation with a registered dietitian upon completion of participation, and
  • Upon completion, a 30-day pass to 24 Hour Fitness!

Interested?

In Order to Participate in our Study of the Dietary Protein Effects on Insulin Sensitivity, You Need to Be:
  • At least 18 years old
  • At a body mass index (B.M.I.) between or equivalent to 27 and 40 (Please click HERE to go to a B.M.I. chart
  • A non-smoker
  • Willing to abstain from alcohol and dietary supplements
  • Willing to follow two specific diets for 4 weeks each

The diets must be followed EVERY DAY with NO CHEATING for 8 weeks, and EVERYTHING on the menus must be eaten – no food or beverage substitutions allowed. Click HERE for more information about the diets.

The study is 8 weeks long, during which time you must also be able to:

  • Wear a pedometer to monitor your physical activity
  • Come to the Cholesterol Research Center (CRC) in Berkeley every week to be weighed and to pick up entrees (Click HERE for CRC location)
  • Come to 3 morning visits for blood draws – the first of which will last about 1 hour, the second two of which may last as long as 7 hours
  • And maintain a body weight within + 3% of your initial weight during any consecutive two weeks after the second week of the baseline diet OR during the last week of each diet phase.
In addition, if you are a woman of child-bearing age, you must use allowed methods of birth control for the entire study and be willing to take a urine pregnancy test at each clinic visit.

You will be compensated $1000 for full participation in the study.

If you’d like to apply to participate in the study, please print our questionnaire. It can be mailed or faxed to us at the address shown on the form.

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After we receive the questionnaire we will provide more information to help you make your decision to be in this study.

Please note, however, that people with certain health issues which would compromise either the study results, or their own health, can not be included in the study. This includes those who have heart disease, diabetes, or cancer, and/or those persons taking lipid lowering medications, diabetic medications, hormones, certain blood pressure medications, blood thinning agents, and some other drugs.

For more information, or to be placed on a list to be contacted about our other research studies, either now or in the future, please Contact Us. For more information about the Principal Investigator for this study, Ronald Krauss, MD, click HERE. This study is sponsored by Dairy Management, Inc.

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