Food Choices in Healthy Weight Women

NCT02481362 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: UTK IRB-15-02330-XP
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 28
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will examine differences in habituation to foods high in sugar and fat content versus those that are not, in normal weight women.

Conditions

Addictive Behavior; Food Preferences; Food Habits; Healthy; Habituation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Grams of consumption of cake

  Amount of cake consumed will be measured using the following formula: amount of cake before consumption (first weight) - amount of cake following consumption (second weight).

  60 minutes

• Grams of consumption of apricots

  Amount of apricots consumed will be measured using the following formula: amount of apricots before consumption (first weight) - amount of apricots following consumption (second weight).

  60 minutes

Study Arms (2)

Order 1

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Order for sessions: Cake, apricots

Other: CAKE; Other: APRICOTS

Order 2

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Order for sessions: apricots, Cake

Other: CAKE; Other: APRICOTS

Interventions

CAKE OTHER

For the CAKE condition, participants will play a computer task to earn points for cake that they can consume.

Order 1; Order 2

APRICOTS OTHER

For the APRICOTS condition, participants will play a computer task to earn points for apricots that they can consume.

Order 1; Order 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• body mass index (BMI) 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2
• nonsmokers
• not allergic to the foods used in the investigation
• must like the foods in the investigation (scoring \> 50 mm on a visual analogue scale \[VAS\])
• be willing to consume the foods
• not have dietary restrictions
• not be a restrained eater (scoring \> 12 on the Three Factor Eating Scale)
• not be on medications that influence appetite
• not planning to change their diet or physical activity during the time frame of their study participation
• not dieting or trying to lose weight.

You may not qualify if:

• BMI outside of the range 18.5-24.9
• smoker
• food allergies
• does not like the foods used in the study
• has dietary restrictions
• is a restrained eater
• on medications that may influence appetite
• planning on changing diet or physical activity during time frame of the study
• dieting
• trying to lose weight

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville: lead

Study Sites (1)

Healthy Eating and Activity Laboratory, University of Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, United States

Location

Related Publications (9)

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  PMID: 19348547 BACKGROUND

• Epstein LH, Carr KA, Cavanaugh MD, Paluch RA, Bouton ME. Long-term habituation to food in obese and nonobese women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Aug;94(2):371-6. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.110.009035. Epub 2011 May 18.

  PMID: 21593492 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 17056408 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 25074389 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 24183146 BACKGROUND

• Gearhardt AN, White MA, Masheb RM, Morgan PT, Crosby RD, Grilo CM. An examination of the food addiction construct in obese patients with binge eating disorder. Int J Eat Disord. 2012 Jul;45(5):657-63. doi: 10.1002/eat.20957. Epub 2011 Aug 30.

  PMID: 22684991 BACKGROUND

• Ridgway PS, Jeffrey DB. A comparison of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire and the Restraint Scale and consideration of Lowe's Three-Factor Model. Addict Behav. 1998 Jan-Feb;23(1):115-8. doi: 10.1016/s0306-4603(97)00031-2.

  PMID: 9468749 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior, Addictive; Food Preferences; Feeding Behavior; Substance-Related Disorders

Interventions

Prunus armeniaca extract

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Compulsive Behavior; Impulsive Behavior; Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Hollie Raynor, PhD

  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 23, 2015
• First Posted: June 25, 2015
• Study Start: June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2016
• Study Completion: May 1, 2016
• Last Updated: April 5, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-04

Locations

US (1)