(30-07-06) Effect of a post-dinner snack and partial meal replacement program on weight loss .

Vander Wal JS, Waller SM, Klurfeld DM, McBurney MI, Cho S, Kapila M, Dhurandhar NV.

Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri, USADepartment of Nutrition & Food Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USAKellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan, USARochester Center for Obesity Research, Rochester Hills, Michigan, USAPennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

The objectives of this study were to examine whether providing a structured post-dinner snack would enhance weight loss among obese night snackers participating in a novel partial meal replacement (PMR) program and to examine the efficacy of that program. Sixty adults (age 18-65 years; body mass index >/=30 kg/m2), 29 randomized to the 'post-dinner snack' and 32 to the 'no snack' groups, completed the 8-week program. Both groups showed improvements in weight (-4.23 kg, P < 0.0001), body mass index (-1.48 kg/m2, P < 0.0001), body fat (-1.36%, P < 00.0001), waist circumference (-6.40 cm, P < 0.0001), and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (-2.72 mmol/l, P < 0.01), and on a night snacking question (-1.31, P < 0.0001). The 'post-dinner snack' group did not show significantly greater weight loss outcomes than the 'no snack' group either before or after taking compliance into consideration. Providing a structured post-dinner snack along with a PMR program did not enhance weight loss treatment outcomes; however, the PMR program produced beneficial weight loss changes for obese night snackers.

PMID: 16849118 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2006 February-March;57(1):97-106.

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