Study: Exercising Curbs Women’s Appetite
By Chauncey Crandall, M.D.
There is a belief that exercising makes people want to eat more, so a team in the U.K. decided to look at whether or not this was true by monitoring people’s responses to both calorie and exercise restriction over the course of nine hours.
The researchers conducted a pair of studies designed to identify whether women's appetite responses differ from those of men.
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In the first study, calorie intake was restricted through diet or exercise (a moderate intensity 90-minute treadmill run), and appetite responses were measured over a nine-hour period.
The second study directly compared appetite perception, appetite hormone, and food intake responses to exercise in men and women.
They found that when the number of calories was restricted, the hunger hormone ghrelin increased in the women while the hunger suppressing hormone, peptide YY, was reduced.
The women also ate almost a third more at a buffet meal. But, when they were offered the buffet meal after exercising, they ate less.
These findings contradict previous studies that suggest exercise makes people, women in particular, eat more. They also show the exercise response of the hormones governing hunger and fullness is the same for both men and women, the researchers said of the results, which appear in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
By Chauncey Crandall, M.D.
There is a belief that exercising makes people want to eat more, so a team in the U.K. decided to look at whether or not this was true by monitoring people’s responses to both calorie and exercise restriction over the course of nine hours.
The researchers conducted a pair of studies designed to identify whether women's appetite responses differ from those of men.
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In the first study, calorie intake was restricted through diet or exercise (a moderate intensity 90-minute treadmill run), and appetite responses were measured over a nine-hour period.
The second study directly compared appetite perception, appetite hormone, and food intake responses to exercise in men and women.
They found that when the number of calories was restricted, the hunger hormone ghrelin increased in the women while the hunger suppressing hormone, peptide YY, was reduced.
The women also ate almost a third more at a buffet meal. But, when they were offered the buffet meal after exercising, they ate less.
These findings contradict previous studies that suggest exercise makes people, women in particular, eat more. They also show the exercise response of the hormones governing hunger and fullness is the same for both men and women, the researchers said of the results, which appear in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
. They will get that shit without even knowing about. Yikes, wish my mind never went there. 
