%0 Journal Article %T Estudio comparativo del estatus cl¨ªnico-nutricional en mujeres obesas posmenop¨¢usicas inclu¨ªdas en un programa de p¨¦rdida de peso basado en platos preparados %A Rodr¨ªguez-Navarrete %A G. %A S¨¢nchez-Oliver %A A. %A L¨®pez-Gonz¨¢lez %A B. %A P¨¦rez de la Cruz %A A. %A Manzano Romero %A B. %A Planells del Pozo %A E. %J Nutrici¨®n Hospitalaria %D 2012 %I Sociedad Espa?ola de Nutrici¨®n Parenteral y Enteral %X introduction: few studies have evaluated the efficacy and reliability of weight loss-focussed prepared food dishes in obese post-menopausal women. objective: to compare the efficacy of a weight loss programme based on a balanced hypocaloric diet using prepared dishes* with that of a similar programme based on standard commercially available foods and with a non-intervened control group. a further aim was to evaluate the subjectivity of participants in the preparation of the diet-adjusted dishes based on usually consumed products. subjects: obese post-menopausal women aged between 55 and 65 years. design: controlled longitudinal interventional study. method: the sample of 75 female volunteers were divided into three groups of 25 women: a control group, who continued to consume their usual non-dietary adjusted meals (cg), an intervened group, treated with a diet adjusted to their individual requirements and based on standard commercially available food (sg), and another intervened group, treated with a similarly adjusted diet but based on prepared dishes (pg). data were gathered on anthropometric variables, consumption habits and physical activity levels, and clinical-nutritional controls were conducted at the start and every two weeks to the end of the 8-week study in order to evaluate biochemical changes. results: the weight loss was slightly higher in the prepared-dishes group (pg) than in the standard food diet group (sg), but the difference was not statistically significant, whereas it was considerably higher in both groups than in the non-dietary adjusted control group (cg) and this difference was highly significant (losses of 7.60 kg in pg and 7.01 kg in sg versus 2.10 kg in cg (p < 0.01). however, the pg showed a significantly higher (p < 0.01) loss of fatty mass and abdominal circumference versus the sg women. conclusion: more weight was lost by the two groups treated with a diet based on prepared dishes or usual food items in comparison to untreated controls %K obesity %K prepared dishes %K weight loss %K hypocaloric diet %K post-menopausal woman. %U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0212-16112012000200038&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en