Post-exercise Food Intake Regulation in a Hot Environment (APPA)

University of the French West Indies and French Guiana

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy and Physically Active Young Men

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise; Behavioral: Rest

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02157233

13/N/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The potential of physical activity and other non-medicinal methods for the care and prevention of metabolic and cardiovascular disorders has been insufficiently used. There is a potential influence of environmental heat in energetic balance regulation. However, the existing knowledge is insufficient to optimize physical activity programs based on the impact of exercise on energy intake regulation in hot climates. The aim of the present study is to define the major physiological determinants of short-term food intake regulation in young active and healthy men, when exposed to different levels of metabolic activity and environmental temperatures. We will thus explore the biological mechanisms related to post-exercise relative energy intake. Post-rest and post-exercise energetic compensation will be analysed in these different environmental conditions, with a special focus on the effect of the birth weight. This study should open interesting ways to define adequate nutritional and exercising programs in hot environments.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy and physically active men aged 18-30 years

Exclusion criteria

• any physical or medical problem liable to limit the subjects' ability to perform the exercise testing in safe conditions,
• ear troubles

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Hot environment

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will perform the intervention in a hot environment (33°C)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Rest

Behavioral: Exercise

Neutral environment

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will perform the intervention in a neutral environment (22°C)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Rest

Behavioral: Exercise