Abstract
AIM:To investigate the relation between bone parameters and the metabolic syndrome criteria, before and after the administration of two different natural dietary supplements in middle aged working obese Egyptian women suffering from metabolic syndrome (MetS).SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Fifty eight middle aged obese female volunteers suffering from metabolic syndrome were divided into two groups. During the first period, group (A) consumed a low caloric diet and nutritional supplement consisting of doum flour biscuits, while group (B) consumed whole meal wheat flour biscuit with the same instructions. During the second period, both supplements were omitted. Assessment of blood pressure, relevant anthropometric parameters, lipid accumulation product, fasting blood glucose, uric acid, 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25 (OH) D), parathyroid hormone (PTH) and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase were performed.RESULTS:Data showed that although both supplements improved the MetS criteria and the bone health parameters, the supplement containing the doum flour proved to be more effective.CONCLUSION:These results confirm the benefit of doum in improving bone health parameter [25 (OH) D/PTH axis] in the MetS patients, beside the MetS criteria. So, we can conclude that natural effective supplements lead towards the optimization of biochemical parameters in favor of a healthy outcome.
Highlights
Fat and total carbohydrate contents were lower in biscuits substituted with doum flour (DF) compared to the biscuit prepared from Whole meal wheat flour % extraction (WMWF) alone
At the end of the 2nd phase of the study (3rd assessment), patients were on the low caloric diet alone, % BFM, fat free mass (FFM), minimal waist circumference (MWC) and waist hip ratio (WHR) showed highly significant decrease (p < 0.01) in group (A), while in group (B) only MWC was significantly decreased (p < 0.05)
There was a significant positive correlation biscuits showed the higher decrease when compared between parathyroid hormone (PTH) and body mass index (BMI), MWC and TG in group (A), to group (B)
Summary
At the 2nd assessment the mean levels of the fasting blood glucose (FBG) and triglyceride (TG) decreased significantly (p 0.05 - < 0.01), while the high density lipoprotein–cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration increased significantly, in both groups.
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