Efficacy and Safety of Low-Carbohydrate Diet Combined With Probiotics for Weight Loss in Male Obese Patients.

Participants will be instructed to maintain a daily dietary energy intake of less than 1600 kcal.Based on the low-carbohydrate diet model, the proportion of daily intake of carbohydrate was about 30%, and this ratio was up to 30%, 40% of protein and fat respectively.Participants should choose unprocessed whole grains, potatoes, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, soy products, sugar-free dairy products, designated varieties of low-GI fruits and nuts, etc. as breakfast, and avoid processed meats and high-fat red meat and poultry skins. Standard nutritious meal instead of daily lunch and dinner meals, that is to say, participants should take one nutritional bar for lunch and dinner (310 kcal totally, provided by Guangzhou Nanda Fett Nutrition and Health Consulting Co., Ltd.), and avoid starchy foods. Other food varieties are required to be the same as breakfast. Plant oil is the main cooking oil, and participants will be instructed to drink 2L water every day.

The probiotic compound preparation，named Junyi Yili® Probiotics，is made of Lactobacillus reuteri, Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis, and resistant dextrin contained water-soluble dietary fiber. The subjects will take this probiotic compound preparations with purified water after three meals every day, 1 sachet each time.

Placebo is made of resistant dextrin which contained water-soluble dietary fiber. The subjects were taken this placebo with purified water after three meals every day, 1 sachet each time.