Exercise and Weight Control

USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obese; Overweight

Treatments: Other: Exercise Energy Expenditure 600 kcal/day; Other: Exercise Energy Expenditure 300 kcal/day

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02152501

GFHNRC028

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to research the effects of exercise on calories eaten and expended. The investigator expects to find out whether subjects change their eating and activity behaviors when starting an exercise program.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 to 40 years old
• BMI of 25.0 - 35 kg/m2
• willing to consent to study conditions
• not taking medications that affects energy expenditure or eating
• not using tobacco or nicotine products
• no food allergies or limitations to eating certain food that would prohibit them from eating the study foods
• not be dieting to lose weight
• no major health problems
• cannot have known cardiovascular, pulmonary or metabolic disease
• cannot be regularly exercising in an aerobic manner more than twice per week
• must have a liking of at least 5 out of 10 for 75% of the study foods

Exclusion criteria

• < 18 or > 40 years old
• BMI < 25 or >35 kg/m2
• currently pregnant or trying to become pregnant, or lactating
• currently using tobacco or nicotine
• taking medication that affects energy expenditure or eating
• food allergies to foods used in the study
• regularly exercising in an aerobic manner more than twice per week
• major health problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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29 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise Energy Expenditure 300 kcal/day

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be randomly assigned to this group and will exercise energy expenditure of 300 kcal/day.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Energy Expenditure 300 kcal/day

Exercise Energy Expenditure 600 kcal/day

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be randomly assigned to this group and will exercise energy expenditure of 600 kcal/day.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Energy Expenditure 600 kcal/day