Why use Isocaloric Placebo in Clinical Nutrition RCTs?

27 December 2017 0 7K Report

Can anyone provide reasons for why you may want to include an isocaloric placebo in a placebo-controlled RCT examining cardio metabolic responses to a nutritional intervention.

Strictly matching calories only and not macronutrients.

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