Trial reportBMC pediatrics2015
Impact of physical activity on energy balance, food intake and choice in normal weight and obese children in the setting of acute social stress: a randomized controlled trial.
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Effect of Physical Activity an Stress in Children
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Influence of Acute Physical Activity on Stress Reactivity in Obese and Normal Weight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Obesity facts · 2019Trial
- Exercise following Mental Work Prevented Overeating.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2016Trial
- Physical Activity Volume and Intensity for Healthy Body Mass Index and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Enhancing the Translation of Children's and Adolescents' Accelerometer Physical Activity Reference Values.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Article
- The influence of temperament on stress-induced emotional eating in children.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
- Emotion Identification in Preschool and Early Adolescent Body Mass Index: Exploring the Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Peer Relations.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
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- The influence of 15-week exercise training on dietary patterns among young adults.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- How diet, physical activity and psychosocial well-being interact in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: an integrative review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Review
- Coordinating health promotion in a federal state over the course of 30 years: a case report from Switzerland.Health promotion perspectives · 2019Article
- A Role for Exercise in Attenuating Unhealthy Food Consumption in Response to Stress.Nutrients · 2018Review
- Children`s lifestyle behaviors in relation to anthropometric indices: a family practice study.Clujul medical (1957) · 2017Article
- Prevalence and Trends of Obesity among Chinese Korean Nationality Children and Adolescents, 1991-2010.Iranian journal of public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundPsychological stress negatively influences food intake and food choices, thereby contributing to the development of childhood obesity. Physical activity can also moderate eating behavior and influence calorie intake. However, it is unknown if acute physical activity influences food intake and overall energy balance after acute stress exposure in children. We therefore investigated the impact of acute physical activity on overall energy balance (food intake minus energy expenditure), food intake, and choice in the setting of acute social stress in normal weight (NW) and overweight/obese (OW/OB) children as well as the impact of psychological risk factors.
methodAfter receiving written consent from their parents, 26 NW (BMI < 90(th) percentile) and 24 7-to 11-year-old OW (n = 5)/OB (n = 19, BMI ≥ 90(th) percentile) children were randomly allocated using computer-generated numbers (1:1, after stratification for weight status) to acute moderate physical or to sedentary activity for 30 min. Afterwards, all children were exposed to an acute social stressor. Children and their parents completed self-report questionnaires. At the end of the stressor, children were allowed to eat freely from a range of 12 different foods (6 sweet/6 salty; each of low/high caloric density). Energy balance, food intake/choice and obesity-related psychological risk factors were assessed.
resultsLower overall energy balance (p = 0.019) and a decreased choice of low density salty foods (p < 0.001) in NW children compared with OW/OB children was found after acute moderate physical activity but not sedentary activity. Independent of their allocation, OW/OB children ate more high density salty foods (104 kcal (34 to 173), p = 0.004) following stress. They scored higher on impulsive behavior (p = 0.005), restrained eating (p < 0.001) and parental corporal punishment (p = 0.03), but these psychological factors were not related to stress-induced food intake/choice. Positive parenting tended to be related to lower intake of sweet high density food (-132 kcal, -277 to 2, p = 0.054).
conclusionsIn the setting of stress, acute moderate physical activity can address energy balance in children, a benefit which is especially pronounced in the OW/OB. Positive parenting may act as a protective factor preventing stress-induced eating of comfort food.
trial registrationclinicaltrials.gov NCT01693926 The study was a pilot study of a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (CRSII3_147673).
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