Anthropometric characteristics of participants at baseline and at month 3 of intervention are shown in Table 1. With the diets HP and S,BMI, weight, fat mass, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and systolic blood pressure decreased at 3, 6 and 9 months. The decrease at 9 months of (BMI: −2.6 ± 1.3 kg/m2 vs. −2.1 ± 1.2 kg/m2:p b 0.05), weight (−8.4 ± 4.2 kg vs. −5.0 ± 4.1 kg: p b 0.05), fat mass (−5.1 ± 4.1 kg vs. −3.4 ± 4.2 kg: p b 0.05) and systolic blood
pressure (−5.1 ± 7.1 mmHg vs. −3.1 ± 2.1 mmHg: p b 0.05) was higher in diet HP than Diet S.