Vigorous Workouts Suppress Hunger, Especially for Women.

Question

Article claims, that when exercise is high intensity vs moderate hunger is not as noticeable.

Answer 1

This article and the facts are both credible and correct. The article includes an experiment conducted by Dr Kara Anderson. She was a graduate and doctoral student. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She has plenty of experience in the health field and was a physical therapy technician for years. The experiment included both men and women. They fasted overnight then completed workouts at different levels of intensity. The researchers measured the ghrelin levels in each participant and reported that individuals felt ‘less hungry’ after high intensity workouts. Ghrelin is our hunger hormone. To describe the different intensities, the researchers sited the CDC and their article on intensity of exercise. The Endocrine Society, a professional, international medical organization, also wrote about the experiment. This all shows that the fact presented is true and the website is credible. 

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/physical-activity-basics/measuring/index.html

Endocrine Society:  <!--[endif]-->Study finds intense exercise may suppress appetite in healthy humans | Endocrine Society

Answer 2

Based on the article from U.S. News and World Report there is very good evidence that high-intensity exercises have been seen to reduce hunger more than moderate intensity exercises. Another discovery, which supports this point is the stipulation that exercise intensity is most beneficial in terms of suppressing appetite, this finding has been furnished in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Therefore the method of collecting data by measuring the participants’ ghrelin levels and self-perceived appetite after differing exercise intensities adds credibility to the findings of the study.

This thesis raises the question of the effectiveness of HIIE’ s application for weight loss intervention particularly for women. Again, due to the vitamins strict scientific approach and the sources used, it is tempting to conclude that the data is not misinformation. The results outlined in this study correlate with previous research on exercising effects on appetite and enriches knowledge in this field.

For further details, you can refer to the original article on U.S. News and World Report.

Comments

This is a thoughtful answer! The cited sources in the original claim *do* support the claim, though they do so with difficult to understand research. I think that you answered this in easier to understand terms. It does appear that the scientific approach may ignore the reality for people who try and see if intense exercise will make them less hungry outside of the science experiment.

Answer 3

Based on the original article, the leader researcher is Kara Anderson. She seems reputable since she has a PhD and works in the UVA Department of Medicine. The study also uses a wide range of participants, "researchers examined eight men and six women" which helps make the study more reputable since they have more data to examine from. The original article claims that high-intensity workouts may suppress appetite. Another article, Healthline has more information on this topic. It states that, "impact of exercise on hunger and ghrelin levels vary across exercise intensity. High-intensity exercise had the most significant effect on ghrelin across males and females." This proves that the effects of high-intensity exercise are higher in females than males. And that the ghrelin levels that are being suppressed can have an effect of hunger levels.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vigorous-exercise-curbs-hunger#Takeaway

Answer 4

The linked article mainly focuses on a hormone called "ghrelin." Minimal informal was provided on ghrelin, so I searched for outside sources to better explain it. I found that it is a hormone produced mainly in the stomach, but also released by the pancreas and small intestine. It does signal to the brain when the stomach is empty, so the article is accurate in claiming that it will heavily impact appetite levels. In the experiment discussed in the article, levels of ghrelin were reduced after intensive workouts, significantly more in women as compared to men. I can conclude that vigorous workouts can in fact suppress hunger, however I am skeptical of whether this claim will hold up if this practice is used continuously for weight loss. If levels of hunger are lower and the subject is not consuming enough food, they will not posses proper energy levels to perform such high intensity workouts. So although the claim is true, the question arises whether this is a healthy form of weight management.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22804-ghrelin

Answer 5

There is evidence to support this claim. This article is referring to an experiment ran by researcher Kara Anderson. In the experiment, researchers discovered an inverse relationship between acute exercise and ghrelin levels. This means that the more intense that the exercise is, the more suppressed that hunger levels will be. This research article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34391825/ Additionally, in another research article by Kara Anderson, researchers concluded that this finding was more common in women than in men in this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39449714/ However, the journalist who wrote the article on usnews.com slightly exaggerated the findings of the study because this research has not been tested enough to be confirmed at this time.