INTERVENTIONS |
Intervention type
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Intervention name
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Dose
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Duration
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Intervention description
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Group size
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Nature of control
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Experimental Group |
pawpaw |
Fruit that contains an equivalent of 50g of glucose will be received once per participant |
Once - during one hospital visit |
Participants will be asked to visit our general outpatient clinic once per week for 5 weeks. For every visit, each participant will be served different fruits (depending on the sequence they were assigned) and their blood sugar level will be monitored and recorded over 120 minutes |
17 |
|
Experimental Group |
pineapple |
Fruit that contains an equivalent of 50g of glucose will be received once per participant |
once - during one hospital visit |
Participants will be asked to visit our general outpatient clinic once per week for 5 weeks. For every visit, each participant will be served different fruits (depending on the sequence they were assigned) and their blood sugar level will be monitored and recorded over 120 minutes |
17 |
|
Experimental Group |
banana |
Fruit that contains an equivalent of 50g of glucose will be received once per participant |
Once - during one hospital visit |
Participants will be asked to visit our general outpatient clinic once per week for 5 weeks. For every visit, each participant will be served different fruits (depending on the sequence they were assigned) and their blood sugar level will be monitored and recorded over 120 minutes |
17 |
|
Experimental Group |
Orange |
Fruit that contains an equivalent of 50g of glucose will be received once per participant |
Once - during one hospital visit |
Participants will be asked to visit our general outpatient clinic once per week for 5 weeks. For every visit, each participant will be served different fruits (depending on the sequence they were assigned) and their blood sugar level will be monitored and recorded over 120 minutes |
17 |
|
Control Group |
Glucose |
50g of glucose |
Once - during one hospital visit |
Participants will be asked to visit our general outpatient clinic once per week for 5 weeks. For every visit, each participant will be served different fruits (depending on the sequence they were assigned) and their blood sugar level will be monitored and recorded over 120 minutes |
17 |
Active-Treatment of Control Group |