In its January 25, 2012, issue, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on the effects of overconsumption of low, normal, and high protein diets on weight gain, energy expenditure, and body composition. Researchers conducted a single blind, randomized controlled trial of 25 U.S. adults. The subjects were healthy, weight-stable, male and female volunteers, aged 18 to 35 years. All subjects consumed a weight-stabilizing diet for 13 to 25 days. Afterwards, the researchers randomly assigned participants to diets containing various percentages of energy from protein: 5% (low protein), 15% (normal protein), or 25% (high protein). On these diets the researchers overfed the participants during the last 8 weeks of their 10- to 12-week stay in the inpatient metabolic unit.

This is an example of which type of study?

	a.	Experiment
	b.	Observational study

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