Study: Exercise helps curb hunger

Exercise and hunger

A study by Loughborough University has found that exercising is more effective than food restriction in helping limit daily calorie consumption.

The findings contradict previous studies that suggest exercise makes people - in particular women - eat more.

Studying women’s calorie control

Dr David Stensel and colleagues at the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine East Midlands (NCSEM-EM) studied women's hormonal, psychological and behavioural responses to calorie control through exercise and food restriction over the course of nine hours.

The exercise vs. diet effect

Where an energy (calorie) deficit was achieved by food restriction, participants showed increased levels of the hunger hormone, ghrelin, and lower levels of a hunger suppressing hormone, peptide YY.

They also ate almost a third more at a buffet meal compared with another occasion when the same energy deficit was created via exercise. Participants ate an average of 944 calories following food restriction, compared to 660 calories after exercise

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