First, a few words 
about inhibitory control. In nonscientific terms, it keeps us out of trouble. In slightly more scientific terms, it’s “the ability to resist a strong inclination to do one thing and instead to do what is most appropriate or needed.” Yes, sounds dull, but wait. Now come researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who claim that exercise changes the brain, increasing connections in the grey matter and prefrontal cortex, and improving the brain’s executive functions, such as, you guessed it: inhibitory control. Medical News Today reports that the researchers believe that the bolstered control helps us “resist the many temptations that we are faced with everyday in a society where food, especially hypercaloric food, is more and more omnipresent.” The researchers also point out that exercise makes the brain more sensitive to physiological signs of fulness, which helps not only to control appetite, and modifies the “hedonic” response to food stimuli, say the researchers. All good. Read more in Medical News Today.