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Supplementation of Korean fermented soy paste doenjang reduces visceral fat in overweight subjects with mutant uncoupling protein-1 allele.
Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2012
Lee Myoungsook, Chae Soowan, Cha Yoonsoo, Park Yongsoon
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The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that the antiobesity effect of doenjang, a Korean fermented soy paste is different between the mutant and the wild-type alleles of a polymorphism upstream of the uncoupling protein-1 (UCP-1) gene in overweight subjects. In our randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, a total of 51 subjects with a body mass index of 23 kg/m(2) or greater and a...
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