Figure 1.

A CONSORT flowchart of the study design and enrollment. Flyers and emails were used to recruit interested individuals. Interested individuals contacted the research team, who sent additional information about this study. Two hundred and ninety individuals completed an initial eligibility screening with the research team. Forty-seven individuals met study requirements and were randomly allocated to CON or LEN experimental groups with varying weekly doses of lentils: CON, control (0 g/week) and LEN, lentil (980 g/week).