Brain, Appetite, Teens, and Exercise

Youth randomized to the active condition will participate in an organized exercise program. During the exercise program, adolescents will participate in a supervised structured exercise (treadmill walking/cycling on stationary bike) on 3 days equivalent to approximately 180 min/week of moderate-intensity exercise. The rationale for this dose of structured exercise is based on national (ADA) and international physical activity recommendations for youth of 60 minutes/day.

"Families will receive a monthly newsletter with parenting tips, sample praise statements, and child-appropriate activities and recipes identical to what has been used in the work of leaders in the field of pediatric obesity. Previous research suggests that newsletter/mail interventions are well received by participants and are frequently included in federally funded health intervention studies."