Caloric Compensation in Infants

Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Regulation; Eating Behavior; Infant Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Caloric compensation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03409042

PUNCH 1.1.2 (2015-A00014-45)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is, first, to describe the evolution of the caloric compensation ability in infants from 3 to 15 months old and, secondly, to assess the links between changes in the caloric compensation ability and the individual characteristics (adiposity, age, gender, infant's eating behavior) and maternal feeding practices.

Three series of measurements of caloric compensation abitlity were conducted: at 3-4 months old, at 10.5 months old and at 14.5 months old in the laboratory.

In this study, a preload paradigm usually employed in children and adults to measure the caloric compensation ability was adapted to infants below 15 months old. The maternal eating behavior and their feeding practices were measured by questionnaires. The infants' height and weight were measured at the laboratory by trained experimenters.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 11 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• no chronic health problem or food allergies
• not having been fed with hydrolysate formula
• gestational age ≥ 37 weeks
• born weight ≥ 2.5kg
• without having being tube fed at any moment

Exclusion criteria

• infants from diabetic mothers
• infants from mothers having celiac disease
• infants from minor parents (<18 years old) were excluded