The goal of this clinical trial is to learn how exercise and diet quality affect the health of adolescents with obesity. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Does exercise improve cardiometabolic health in adolescents with obesity?
- Does enriching the diet with fruits and vegetables (FV) improve cardiometabolic health in adolescents with obesity?
- Do exercise and FV diet together provide greater health benefits than either alone in adolescents with obesity?
Researchers will compare four groups to see how exercise and diet impact health:
- Standard Care Group: Receives the usual care for obesity.
- Exercise Group: Receives weekly exercise coaching and participates in a 12-week exercise program.
- Diet Group: Receives weekly dietary coaching and eats a diet enriched with fruits and vegetables for 12 weeks.
- Combined Exercise and Diet Group: Receives both exercise and dietary programs, namely weekly exercise and dietary coaching, participation in a 12-week exercise program, and daily consumption of fruits and vegetables for 12 weeks.
During the 12-week study, participants will attend three study visits to:
- Provide blood, stool, and urine samples.
- Answer questions about health, sleep, diet, and physical activity.
- Undergo body scans to measure fat, lean, and bone mass.
- Complete blood vessel function and liver fat content assessments.
- Assess resting exergy expenditure.
- Complete fitness tests.
- Wear a fitness tracker to monitor physical activity and sleep patterns.