Table III.

Mean daily intakes of nutrients and purine for 3 days before the bi-weekly blood collection.

	During the intervention			After the intervention
Nutrients	Baseline	Week 2	Week 4	Week 2
Energy, kj/day
Placebo	7,976±346	8,541±550	8,831±446	8,393±552
Low dose	8,855±353	9,256±469	9,529±486	9,072±456
High dose	7,568±333	7,978±412	8,705±510	8,070±487
Protein, g/day
Placebo	65.4±3.7	71.0±5.3	73.9±3.7	71.1±4.1
Low dose	70.5±3.3	76.1±5.3	76.8±4.6	76.1±4.4
High dose	68.5±4.7	65.9±4.1	72.2±4.2	70.8±4.9
Fat, g/day
Placebo	63.6±5.1	62.3±5.8	71.7±5.8	67.3±5.7
Low dose	72.6±3.0	80.4±4.3	85.7±5.9	78.1±3.8
High dose	57.7±4.6	68.2±7.4	77.2±6.4	71.2±8.4
Carbohydrate, g/day
Placebo	256.0±12.0	286.8±17.7	279.4±15.1	266.3±17.6
Low dose	284.0±15.4	284.8±15.9	287.3±16.8	278.0±16.5
High dose	243.3±11.2	247.1±9.9	262.8±17.0	240.8±13.4
Purine, g/day
Placebo	276.1±20.6	296.8±28.1	307.8±20.3	302.0±23.1
Low dose	259.6±13.2	306.9±32.0	301.8±24.7	320.2±34.7
High dose	296.1±22.9	265.3±20.9	292.0±19.1	276.6±19.8

Values are expressed as the mean ± standard error.