Abstract
Do consumers eat more when they exercise more? If so, the implications could ripple through the multi-billion dollar fitness and food industries and have implications for both consumers and health-care providers. Three studies—two field experiments and one observational field study—triangulate on this potential compensatory mechanism between physical activity and food intake. The findings showed that when physical activity was perceived as fun (e.g., when it is labeled as a scenic walk rather than an exercise walk), people subsequently consume less dessert at mealtime and consume fewer hedonic snacks. A final observational field study during a competitive race showed that the more fun people rated the race as being, the less likely they were to compensate with a hedonic snack afterwards. Engaging in a physical activity seems to trigger the search for reward when individuals perceive it as exercise but not when they perceive it as fun. Key implications for the fitness industry and for health-care professionals are detailed along with the simple advice to consumers to make certain they make their physical activity routine fun in order to avoid compensation.
Great idea, I want another excuse to be on the couch, sorry but this article is a bunch of nonsense. Think, please.
on second thought , keep denying information, we will advance faster.
Gee, I think the whole issue of exercise,diet,weight loss, can be summed up pretty simply.....
Eat LESS, move MORE........if those four words are implemented....you lose weight (or at least
stay the same)....JMO
Hmm, you're gonna be letting some people down in the dudes in uniform thread if that's how you are. Do you need someone to cattle prod you?!
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ScienceChic wrote: Hmm, you're gonna be letting some people down in the dudes in uniform thread if that's how you are. Do you need someone to cattle prod you?!
I have a fitbit, a home gym, a wife that liked it when I was in shape for competition swimming, and a personal trainer friend that has taken me on as a charity case and a challenge.
I don't have a prayer of touching a twinkie without SERIOUS repercussions.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
I get the same complex dietary directions from my sawbones every year after my annual physical:
Move more, eat less, and when you eat make sure it's mostly green and leafy.
Sure Doc, I'll go home and have an Iceberg lettuce wedge salad for dinner (I just use my skills of selective truth to avoid telling him about the bacon, strips of steak, and the glob of really good blue cheese dressing I'll put on top). Right after dinner me and the Wundermutt will go for a walk (from the kitchen to the deck and a comfortable chair) for at least an hour.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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