Clinical trials: Energy Balance
Obesity
Diet, Imaging and Energy Balance Trial (DIET)
To evaluate whether changes in macronutrient consumption (i.e., switching to a diet low in carbohydrates) can change brain responses to cues depicting foods representing that macronutrient.
- Trial name
- DIET (NCT00787280)
- Testing
- Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet (LCKD), Low Fat Diet (LFD)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Healthy
theFRESHstudy: FRequency of Eating and Its Influence on Satiety and Health
Eating frequency may play an independent role in appetite regulation, overall caloric consumption and measures of long-term health or disease risk.
- Trial name
- NCT02392897
- Testing
- High Eating Frequency, Low Eating Frequency
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Obesity, Social Dominance
Subjective Social Status and Energy Balance
Investigators examined the associations between SSS, energy balance, food intake and changes in body composition following a high calorie lunch for 2 weeks.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Social Dominance, Social Behavior, Eating Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT03510364
- Testing
- Dietary intervention
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Texas Tech University
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Obesity
The DEB Pilot Study
The purpose of the current study is to test if weight change is differentially affected by consumption of foods that are identical in carbohydrate (i.e. sugar) but vary in food form over 1 month.
- Trial name
- DEB Pilot (NCT03190993)
- Testing
- Sugar Sweetened Solid Treatment, Sugar Sweetened Beverage Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Chronic Low-back Pain
Muscle Energy Technique and Foam Roller Self Myofascial Release in Two-wheeler Riders With Chronic Low Back Pain
Pain in the lower back is a major concern in today's era due to prolonged sitting in two-wheeler riders, mainly due to hamstring tightness. It also creates physical disability and impairment in activities of daily living.
- Trial name
- NCT06017804
- Testing
- Muscle energy technique, Self-myofascial release technique
- Where
- Saudi Arabia
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- King Saud University
Whole-body Protein Balance, Muscle Protein Synthesis
Effects of Protein Quality on Post-exercise Skeletal Muscle and Whole-body Protein Kinetics During Energy Deficit
The optimal EAA-containing protein format necessary to maximally stimulate muscle protein synthesis and optimize whole-body net protein balance during caloric deprivation has not been determined.
- Trial name
- NCT04004715
- Testing
- Essential Amino Acid Enriched Whey Protein, Whey Protein, Military Ration Entree
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Obesity, Exercise Reinforcement
Exercise and Weight Control
The objective of this project is to determine the biological, neurobehavioral, and behavioral compensatory responses to exercise training-induced energy deficits in overweight to obese men and women.
- Trial name
- NCT03413826
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kentucky
Menstrual Cycle, Oral Contraceptive Use
Effects of the Menstrual Cycle and Oral Contraceptive Use on Health and Performance in Athletes
A review of the sports medicine literature reveals a clear underrepresentation of female athletes in research. In the current era of precision medicine, increasing attention has been directed toward the regulatory roles of…
- Conditions
- Menstrual Cycle, Oral Contraceptive Use, Athlete
- Trial name
- Flow2Perform (NCT07591818)
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Faculdade de Motricidade Humana
Metabolic Health, Gut Hormones
Breaking Sitting and Metabolic Health in Sedentary Lean Adults
The purpose of this project is to investigate the effects of breaking up prolonged sitting on postprandial metabolic responses, gut hormones secretion and energy balance in sedentary lean adults.
- Conditions
- Metabolic Health, Gut Hormones, Energy Balance
- Trial name
- NCT05306613
- Testing
- Prolonged sitting, Breaking sitting
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan Normal University
Obesity
Energy Balance Weight Regulation Study
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that a low-carbohydrate diet will impact hormones and other factors that regulate appetite and energy balance, and result in lower energy intake and greater weight loss, than a…
- Trial name
- BALANCE (NCT00619008)
- Testing
- Ad libitum low carbohydrate diet, Ad libitum High Complex Carbohydrate Diet, Energy-restricted high complex carbohydrate diet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Psychosocial Influence on Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease
Influence of Monopoly Game on Subtle Behaviors
The purpose of this research study is to investigate how social standing in a game of Monopoly may influence behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT02729389
- Testing
- High Social Status Condition, Low Social Status Condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Obesity, Childhood
Food Genetics Behavior Study
A genetic risk for obesity does not always translate to the development of obesity among children, which points to the presence of risk-modifying factors that likely relate to energy balance behaviors as key behavioral drivers.
- Trial name
- FOODIE (NCT05783765)
- Testing
- Heightened Drive to Eat
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 317 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Childhood Cancer
Pain, Body Composition and Physical Activity in Childhood Cancer.
Comparing baseline assessments of children with cancer and their parents with baseline assessments of healthy children and their parents in a case-control study will allow the investigators to make the comparison in terms of…
- Trial name
- NCT04004455
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Diet Records, Caloric Restriction
A New Method for Self-assessment of Daily Calorie Intake
The purpose of this study is to assess the validity of self-caloric evaluation, the "categories method" - a new method based on one categorical score per meal
- Trial name
- NCT01408784
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 135 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assuta Hospital Systems
Obesity & Overweight, Healthy Adult
Vitis Intervention Trial in Substrate Metabolism
Obesity is associated with reduced metabolic flexibility (MetFlex), the capacity to shift between carbohydrate and lipid oxidation in response to nutrient availability.
- Trial name
- VITIS (NCT07800988)
- Testing
- Freeze-Dried Whole Grape Powder
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Obesity
Effects of Images Following Long-term Aerobic Exercise on Brain Activation
The primary purpose of this study is to quantify activation of regions of the brain associated with appetite and reward after viewing high sugar and high fat (HS/HF) images compared to control images following long-term aerobic…
- Trial name
- E-Mech Anc II (NCT02162524)
- Testing
- Aerobic Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Transsexualism, Transgenderism
Effects of Cross-sex Hormone Therapy on Eating Behavior, Metabolism, Energy Balance and Cardiovascular System
Current study aims to characterize five highly interconnected physiological systems in patients undergoing cross-sex hormone therapy - namely glucose and lipid metabolism, energy balance, eating behavior, functional brain…
- Conditions
- Transsexualism, Transgenderism, Adiposity, Eating Behavior
- Trial name
- HHS (NCT04838249)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Leipzig
Energy Expenditure, Atrophy, Muscular
Energy Balance in Extreme Environments: Finding the EI Limit
This project is feasibility study looking at extreme exercise and possible diet intervention study to counter muscle and weight loss during a 2 person Greenland Ski Traverse in April 2023.
- Conditions
- Energy Expenditure, Atrophy, Muscular, Energy Intake
- Trial name
- StOMPE (NCT05773469)
- Testing
- Exercise, Nutrition
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 2 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Exeter
Energy Metabolism, Energy Expenditure
Calorie Balance Monitoring and Analysis of Body Composition and Hydration Status
The investigators are developing two new medical instruments: 1. the Intelligent Sensor Belt (ISB), and 2. the Body Composition and Hydration Status Analyzer (BC-HS-A).
- Conditions
- Energy Metabolism, Energy Expenditure, Body Composition, Body Fluids
- Trial name
- PCMMS (NCT00823329)
- Testing
- cardiac stress testing with an exercise machine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ori Diagnostic Instruments LLC
Healthy Volunteers
Effect of Ration Formulations on Warfighter Energy Balance and Physical Performance During a Field Training Exercise
The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to determine the effects of consuming the Close Combat Assault Ration (CCAR) compared to the First Strike Ration (FSR) during a 7-day strenuous military training on energy intake and…
- Trial name
- NCT06261437
- Testing
- CCAR, FSR
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine