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NCT Number: NCT06017440

Effect of Acute Exercise on Sensory and Hedonic Responses to a Fixed Meal in Adolescents With Obesity

While long considered independently, energy expenditure and energy intake have been shown to interact. Fot the last 20 years, the litterature has been describing tyhe effects of an acute bout of exercise on subsequent energy intake and appetitive responses, indicating a potenital anorexigenic effect of intensive exercise in adolescents with obesity. These studies suggest a decrease in hunger, redcued satiety and modified food reward responses.

These results remain however obtained in studies using post exercise ad libitum test meals and this nature of the meal might ahve impact these responses.

The present work tends to assess the effect of acute exercise on subsequent appetite and food reward responses to a fixed meal, in adolescents with obesity.

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Key information

Age range

11 year–16 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, France

About this study

After an inclusion visit to ensure the aptitude of adolescents to complete the entire study, each will have to carry out densitometric measurements (body composition and bone structure). The adolescents will then carry out, in a randomized manner, 2 experimental sessions spaced at least 7 days apart: i) a control session (CON); ii) a session with a pedaling exercise at 65% of their estimated maximum capacity (EX).

During each of these experimental sessions, teenagers will receive a calibrated breakfast at 08:00 am. During the CON session, teenagers should not perform any physical activity during the day and they will be asked to stay at 11 a.m., for 30 minutes, resting in a semi-supine position. During the EX session, teenagers will perform moderate-intensity physical exercise (65% of their estimated maximum capacity) at 11 a.m. At noon, the teenagers will have to consume a calibrated meal. Questionnaires on feelings of hunger will be distributed to them at regular intervals. They will also be asked to complete a 10-minute computer exercise to assess their relationship to food just before and just after the calibrated midday meal (LFPQ. Leeds Food Preference Questionnaire, Liking/Wanting, French version). Sixty minutes after the calibrated meal, teenagers will have an ad libitum buffet available for one hour.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Subjects aged 11 to 16 years (inclusive limits), maturation stage 3-5 according to the Tanner classification, with obesity defined by a body mass index (BMI) greater than the 97th percentile according to national curves (Roland- Cachera et al., 1991).
  • Adolescent who has signed the information and consent form and whose holders of parental authority have signed the information and consent form
  • Person subject to a Social Security scheme

Exclusion criteria

Medical or surgical history deemed by the investigator to be incompatible with the study

  • Presence of diabetes, and any other pathology limiting the application of one or the other strategy to the trial.
  • Taking medications that may interfere with the results of the study
  • Subjects with cardiovascular problems, here we are talking about subjects with a history of cardiovascular and/or neurovascular pathology, as well as subjects presenting cardiovascular and/or neurovascular risk factors (excluding obesity/ overweight).
  • Surgical intervention in the previous 3 months.
  • Subjects undergoing energy restriction or weight loss program through physical activity at the time of inclusion or during the last six months.
  • Consumption of tobacco or alcohol.
  • Special diet.
  • Participation in regular and intense physical and sports activities for more than two hours per week.
  • Teenagers whose parents are under guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice or not subject to a social security system
  • Refusal to sign the information and consent notice
  • Person in period of exclusion from another study
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding adolescents on declarative

Treatment and study plan

Exercise

Behavioral

Participants will receive at 08:00 am a calibrated breakfast of 500kcal. They should not perform physical exercise during the day. They will be asked at 11 a.m. to cycle for 30 minutes at 65% of the maximal capacities and their energy expenditure will be measured by indirect calorimetry. At 11 a.m., teenagers will receive a calibrated meal of 800 kcal respecting the nutritional recommendations for this age. Questionnaires on feelings of hunger will be distributed to them at regular intervals. They will also be asked to complete a 10-minute computer exercise to assess their relationship to food before and after lunch (LFPQ. Leeds Food Preference Questionnaire, Liking/ wanting). Finally, from 60 minutes after the midday test meal, teenagers will have access to an ad libitum buffet for one hour.

Control

Behavioral

Teenagers should not perform any physical activity during the day and they will be asked to stay at 11 a.m., for 30 minutes, resting in a semi-supine position.

Primary outcomes

  1. APPETITE FEELINGS

    Time frame: immediately after lunch

    appetite sensation will be assessed using visual analog scales

  2. FOOD reward

    Time frame: at lunch time

    food reward will be assessed using the leeds food preference questionnaire

  3. Energy intake

    Time frame: at lunch time

    energy intake will be assessed ad libitum at the following diner

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Other

Registry information

Acronym: SMASH

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Aug 30, 2023
Registry last updated
Oct 18, 2023

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