Specially Designed Eating Plates Effects on Food Intake in Normal Weight and Overweight Children

Dan Nemet, MD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: Specially designed plates

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02166892

MeirMc0042-14CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous studies demonstrated that children served themselves more food when using larger plates and bowels. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if self-served portions and caloric intake in normal weight and overweight children will be influenced by a specially designed eating plates compared to similar size normal plates.

Full description

40 normal weight and 40 overweight kindergarden and elementary school children will participate in this study.

Anthropometric measurements: weight, height, BMI and BMI percentiles will be measured and calculated for each participant.

The participants will take part in two non-exercise activities at the 'sport and health center for children and adolescence'. At the end of each activity, a lunch buffet that contains all food ingredients will be served. During one meeting the children will be handed a regular plate and at the second meeting they will be handed a specially designed plate (with marking of the recommended meal composition and portion).

The amount and composition of food on the plates will be assessed by weighing and photography before and after eating and analysed to report macronutrient consumption by a dietitian. The meetings for normal weight children will be separated from the overweight children.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over weight / obese children
• Normal weight children

Exclusion criteria

• Organic disease that cause obesity
• Underweight children (BMI percentiles < 5)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Normal weight

Active Comparator group

Description:

Normal weight children will be served food in two different occasions using two sets of plates (same size). One set will be plane and the second is a specially designed plate that demonstrate the recommended food consumption and portion.

Treatment:

Other: Specially designed plates

Overweight children

Active Comparator group

Description:

Overweight children will be served food in two different occasions using two sets of plates (same size). One set will be plane and the second is a specially designed plate that demonstrate the recommended food consumption and portion.

Treatment:

Other: Specially designed plates