The Effect of Oat Based Breakfast Cereals on Satiety and Food Intake

The Effect of Oat Based Breakfast Cereals on Satiety and Food Intake.

This study is to determine if two breakfasts of equivalent calories, an oat based breakfast cereal or a ready-to-eat cereal, provide the same satiety benefits. The study will also determine if the two calorically equivalent oat-based breakfast cereals give different caloric intakes at a lunch meal that participants will eat to their satisfaction.

The Second trial (Period 2): An additional 48 healthy men and women 18 years of age or older will be enrolled to investigate the satiety and food intake at lunch after a breakfast consisting of one of two randomly assigned oat-based cereals and milk breakfast. Visual analogue scales of hunger and satiety will be completed before breakfast and at, 30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 minutes following consumption. Subjects will be asked to eat Lunch until satisfied. The subjects will have the two breakfasts in a balanced and random order and the two meal tests will be separated by at least a week.

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age or older and are healthy.
• Taking no regular medications other than birth control or hormone replacement therapy.
• Are willing to use an effective method of birth control if you are capable of bearing children. Acceptable methods include abstinence, barrier methods, intrauterine devices, and hormonal methods of contraception.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Are a woman who is pregnant or nursing a baby.
• Have gained or lost 8.8 pounds or more in the last 3 months.
• Have diabetes or a fasting blood sugar over 126 mg/dL.
• Have a score of 14 or greater on the restraint scale of the 3-factor eating questionnaire (a questionnaire which will be given to you by the study staff).
• Are allergic to oats, lactose-free milk, Honey Nut Cheerios or oatmeal.