NCT03981172

Food Reinforcement, Weight Status, and Energy Density

Effects of Daily Snack Food Intake on Food Reinforcement Depend on Weight Status and Energy Density

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators previous studies have shown that obese and non-obese individuals respond differently to daily intake of snack food. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these differences are specific to high energy density snack foods. The investigators hypothesized that obese individuals would show an increase in motivation to obtain high energy density snack foods after two weeks of daily consumption, but that non-obese women and obese women consuming low energy density foods would have reduced motivation to consume snack foods after two weeks of daily consumption.

Conditions

• Reinforcing Value of Food

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Daily snack food intake	participants consumed 60 gram portions of either low energy density or high energy density snack foods every day for two weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-07-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2019-06-10
• Last updated: 2019-06-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States