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The short-term efficacy of the ALCAT Test of food sensitivities to facilitate changes in body composition and self-reported disease symptoms: a randomized controlled study

Gilbert R. Kaats, Director, Health and Medical Research Foundation, San Antonio; Dennis Pulliri, Executive Director, Baylor Sports Medicine Institute, Houston, TX; Larry K. Parker, MD, Women’s Total Health Care Angleton, TX. Published in American Journal of Bariatric Medicine, Spring, 1996.

To examine the efficacy of providing dieters with information on food sensitivities ential food allergies, 100 subjects completed a beginning and ending ALCAT food sensitivity blood test, an underwater test (displacement method) for assessing body composition, and a disease symptom inventory (DSI) self- report at the beginning and end of a four-week test period.

After completion of the initial test, subjects were randomly divided into either a control or an experimental group. Subjects in the control

group were asked to pursue a weight loss program of their own choosing, while subjects in the experimental group were provided with the results of their ALCAT Test listing foods to which they were most and least likely to have a food sensitivity or allergic-like reaction.

Subjects in the experimental group were also provided with dietary guidance on foods that could be substituted for those to which they were likely to have sensitivity.

Analysis of the pre-study data revealed that there were no significant differences between the experimental and control group on any of the parameters of the test battery. However, as compared to the control group, the group following the ALCAT group plan lost significantly more scale weight, percent body fat, and fat weight; had greater improvements in body composition; and had greater increases in fat-free mass.

When compared to the control group, the ALCAT group reported improvements in all 20 items on the DSI, 18 of which were significant at the p=.06 to