Effect of changes in food groups intake on magnesium, zinc, copper, and selenium serum levels during 2 years of dietary intervention.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Dietary Carbohydrates.

To address the effect of 2-year food intake changes in an intervention study on serum concentrations of magnesium, zinc, copper, and selenium.

Why It Was Studied

Essential elements in serum are related to specific changes in food groups intake.

Who Took Part

The age groups tagged for this paper are middle-aged adults, both men and women.

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized.

The participants were allocated by chance, so the Dietary Carbohydrates group and the comparison group should start out alike.

Changes in the intake of 11 food groups were evaluated by food frequency questionnaires.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Copper, Dairy Products, Diet Therapy, Dietary Carbohydrates, Dietary Fats, Energy Metabolism and Fabaceae.

Author keywords: ICP-MS, METs, Mediterranean diet, essential elements in serum, food groups and low-carbohydrate diet.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Dietary Carbohydrates.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 8 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2015 (Journal of the American College of Nutrition), a journal based in United States.

More context: all human trials.