Television Viewing (TVV) & Puberty on Lunchtime Food Intake

University of Toronto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity Prevention

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: water with noncalorie sweetener; Dietary Supplement: water with glucose; Behavioral: TV program showed while feeding

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01025687

KidsStudy_21595

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that television viewing will affect food intake in adolescent girls, and will depend on pubertal stage. Food intake will be measured at 30 min following a glucose(1 g of glucose/kg body weight) or sweetened noncaloric beverage with or without the presence of TV. Subjective appetite will be measured as well.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 9 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy girls with no emotional, behavioral or learning problems

Exclusion criteria

• boys

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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25 participants in 4 patient groups

glucose beverage

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with glucose

noncaloric beverage with TV

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: TV program showed while feeding

Behavioral: TV program showed while feeding

glucose beverage with TV

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: TV program showed while feeding

Behavioral: TV program showed while feeding

noncaloric beverage

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: water with noncalorie sweetener