Sugars-containing Beverage and Food Intake in Children

Toronto Metropolitan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: water with Sucralose; Dietary Supplement: water with sucrose; Dietary Supplement: water with HFCS; Dietary Supplement: water with glucose

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01717716

REB 2010-017-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose is to determine the effect of sugars in solution on food intake and subjective appetite in 9- to 14-year-old normal weight boys. The investigators hypothesize that food intake after all sugars-containing solutions will be decreased in comparison to the control solution, with similar reductions in FI between high-fructose corn syrup -55 (HFCS-55) and sucrose. Food intake will be measured 60 minutes after consumption of 50g of HFCS-55, sucrose or glucose, or a control treatment. Subjective appetite will be measured at 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 9 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy, boy, born at full term and normal birth weight

Exclusion criteria

• Girl, on restricted diet, taking medication that affect appetite or food intake, have significant learning, behavioral, or emotional difficulties

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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15 participants in 4 patient groups

Calorie-free control

Experimental group

Description:

Calorie-free control

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with Sucralose

HFCS-55 drink

Experimental group

Description:

HFCS-55 drink

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with HFCS

Glucose drink

Experimental group

Description:

Glucose drink

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with glucose

Sucrose drink

Experimental group

Description:

Sucrose drink

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with sucrose