Delayed Dinner, Exercise and Glucose Metabolism

National Taiwan Normal University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Normal Dinner; Exercise Plus Delayed Dinner; Delayed Dinner

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed dinner consumption; Behavioral: Exercise with delayed dinner consumption; Behavioral: Normal dinner

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05795205

202203HM008

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate whether exercise can alleviate the impact of delayed dinner on metabolic health next morning in sedentary healthy adults

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physical inactive males
• Weight stable for more than 3 months (no change in weight +/- 3%)
• Non-smoker
• Able to walk comfortably on a treadmill
• Dinner consumers with normal sleep pattern (cycles)

Exclusion criteria

• Personal history of/existing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease or dyslipidaemia
• Taking medications that may influence lipid or carbohydrate metabolism or immune system function
• Unable to take part in exercise for any reason (e.g., injury or disability) or a positive response to any questions on the Physical Activity Readiness questionnaire (PAR-Q)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 3 patient groups

Normal dinner consumption

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will have their dinner between 1800-1830pm

Treatment:

Behavioral: Normal dinner

Delayed dinner consumption

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will have their dinner between 2200-2230pm

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed dinner consumption

Exercise with delayed dinner consumption

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will exercise on a treadmill for 45 min followed by delayed dinner between 2200-2230pm

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise with delayed dinner consumption