None listed
Conditions
Interventions
The study will employ a four-way repeated measures crossover design. All participants will encounter each breakfast type ,breakfast cereals,high fibre, moderate, moderate-low and low fibre.once for each of the four intervention periods.They will be administered to measure their effect on satiety over a 4 hour period across the morning and energy intake at mid-morning .The study will be conducted in the same children in 2 consecutive weekly periods covering 2 of the test interventions per week.
The study will employ a four-way repeated measures crossover design. All participants will encounter each breakfast type ,breakfast cereals,high fibre, moderate, moderate-low and low fibre.once for each of the four intervention periods.They will be administered to measure their effect on satiety over a 4 hour period across the morning and energy intake at mid-morning .The study will be conducted in the same children in 2 consecutive weekly periods covering 2 of the test interventions per week. The interventions will be randomised such that each child may be equally likely to receive any one of the 4 interventions on any of the 4 testing occasions.The participants will follow their habitual diet for the period between the four test interventions.
Sponsors
Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
8 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
8-12 years old,willingness to attend CSIRO Clinic on 4 mornings in two weeks of the school holidays,willingness to attend CSIRO Clinic in fasted state,ability to complete all satiety testing requirements , good general health,regular breakfast consumer defined as more than 5 times per week,regular consumer of ready to eat cereal and willingness to consume in study,ability to follow verbal and written instructions in English,Ability to give informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Currently on a prescribed diet of any description,not a regular breakfast eater,poor general health,learning disabilities or reading difficulties,attention deficit disorder,acute illness within a week prior to testing,current medication usage,known to be allergic to cereal and or dairy foods or considered lactose intolerant,unwilling to consume nominated test cereals,BMI in obese category for age and height,diagnosed as having Type 1 diabetes,learning difficulties or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder .
Outcome results
None listed