NCT01684553

The Effect of Changing the Eating Speed on Energy Intake

The Effect of Changing the Eating Speed on Energy Intake: a Randomized Cross-over Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Christian University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It was hypothesized that eating a meal slowly would lead to a lower meal energy intake and lesser feelings of hunger and desire to eat and higher levels of fullness after the meal compared to eating the same meal more quickly.

Conditions

• Oral Intake Reduced

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Slow eating condition	The subjects were asked to eat their meal slowly during the slow eating condition
BEHAVIORAL	Fast eating condition	The subjects were asked to eat their meal quickly during the fast eating condition

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2012-09-13
• Last updated: 2012-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States