Exercise Makes You Less Hungry

Want to work up a good appetite by running a few miles? Not gonna work. Yet another study, this one conducted at Loughborough University in the U.K., has found that exercise has the opposite effect, diminishing the appetite — at least temporarily. HealthDay reports on the research, which analyzed hormonal, psychological and behavioral responses to calorie control through exercise and food restriction over nine hours in a group of 12 healthy women.  The best indicator of the influence of exercise on appetite may be the fact that at a buffet meal, women whose calorie deficit stemmed from restricting food intake ate an average of 944 calories, compared to 660 calories for those whose calorie deficits were created by running on a treadmill. Wait, there’s more. In the other study, 10 men and 10 women completed 60 minutes of running at the start of a seven-hour trial. Appetite perception, appetite hormones and food intake after exercise did not appear to differ between the sexes.