Reduced fat Oxidation Rates During Submaximal Exercise in Adolescents With a Chronic Inflammatory DISEASE

Adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF) and Crohn’s disease (CD) tend to experience chronic inflammation and suffer from impaired growth. Poor growth may be a result of malnutrition (Thomas et al., 1993; Burdge et al., 1994). While exercise is known to improve clinical outcomes for patients with CF (Wilkes et al., 2009) and CD (Narula and Fedorak, 2008), promoting exercise as a therapy would be of greater value if it does not compromise adequate nutritional intake, and consequently growth.