The main aim of the study is to collect preliminary information on the feasibility and efficacy of a time restricted eating intervention in Spanish children and adolescents with obesity and metabolic comorbidities. Two 8-week interventions will performed in a randomized crossover controlled design: a) reduction of the habitual eating window; b) standard care. Different measurements of body composition and cardiometabolic health markers will be performed along those weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
30
Participants will receive nutritional education sessions and will be instructed to maintain an intake window of at least 13 hours a day, preferably every day of the week and in any case at least 6 days a week.
A personalized progression will be established to progressively reduce the intake window during the first 10 days of intervention. After these first 10 days, the participants will be prescribed to limit food intake to a maximum of 10 hours a day, at least 5 days a week. Participant can freely select the time of day to place the intake window. However, it will be recommended to avoid making the last intake in the 3 hours before going to bed. After 4 weeks of intervention, the dietitian will invite them to reduce the intake window to 9 or 8 hours, if they consider it feasible, maintaining this new intake window during the last 4 weeks of intervention. The intake window can be maintained at 10 hours until the end of the study.
Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga. Hospital Materno-Infantil.
Málaga, Spain
Length of eating window
Time frame: From week 0 to week 8
Body weight
Time frame: week 8
Body fat mass
Time frame: week 8
Lipid profile
Time frame: week 8
HOMA-IR
Time frame: week 8
Hepatic steatosis
Time frame: week 8
Carotid intima-media thickness
Time frame: week 8
Continuous glucose monitoring
Time frame: From week 6 to week 8
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