The Hormonal and Behavioral Impact of Eating Breakfast

Completed

Conditions studied: Eating Behavior

In brief

This study is exploring the relationship between food intake behavior and the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) in women who regularly skip breakfast compared to women who regularly eat breakfast.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01427556

Run by

USDA, Western Human Nutrition Research Center

People needed

120

Starts

2009-08-01

Expected to finish

2014-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-08-18

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pre-menopausal women (as determined by self-report of menstrual history and confirmation with plasma FSH)
• 20 to 45 years old,
• BMI less than 40 kg/m2
• Stable body weight (fluctuation of less than ± 3%) for past 3 months.
• Breakfast eaters: defined as eating at least 15% of total daily energy intake at a meal between 0400-1000 h at least 6 days/week.
• Breakfast skippers: defined as eating no foods or beverages between 0400-1000h at least 4 days/week or only taking beverages (no solid food) containing less than \~100 kcal.

You may not qualify if…

• Erratic/intermittent breakfast eating
• Currently pregnant or lactating
• Shift workers/diagnosed sleep disorders
• Use of tobacco products
• Use of non-prescription drugs/hormone replacement/steroid-based medications
• Diagnosed endocrine, metabolic, or digestive disorder
• Hemoglobin <11 g/dl
• Plasma Glucose >120 mg/dl

Where it is running

• Western Human Nutrition Center, University of California Davis — Davis, California, United States

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