Exercise and a healthy diet go together like cheese and wine (though they are a bit better for you). The two, in tandem, represent the main ways you could prevent disease and keep your body running smoothly. We’ve known this for a long time now, but now we know that increasing your physical activity may improve your diet.
A lot of questions arise when trying to shed pounds. Should you start on a diet, then incorporate exercise? Or the other way around? Understanding the interaction between exercise and eating right could improve the ways we treat and prevent obesity.
Data from studies suggest that tendencies towards a healthy diet and the right amount of physical exercise often go hand in hand. An improvement in exercise is usually tethered to a parallel improvement in diet quality.
Exercise also brings benefits, such as an increase in sensitivity to physiological signs of fullness. This means you could better control your appetite.
Eating and physical activity are behaviors and are influenced by certain areas of the brain. Previous studies have already assessed changes in the brain and cognitive functions in relation to exercise: regular physical exercise causes changes in the working and structure of the brain.
These changes can lead to interesting results. Regular exercise can improve the brain’s executive functions and increase the amount of grey matter and prefrontal connections. While that is a bit technical, here is the takeaway message: it is linked to inhibition control. This is an executive function that exercise can impact. It is the ability to suppress the desire to overeat or eat unhealthy foods — essentially to restrict negative dietary behaviors.
Those looking to shed pounds (and who isn’t?), studies show that inhibition control and greater function in the brain’s prefrontal areas could be the keys to success. This success is mainly the fruit of a behavioral change. Inhibitory control could also help to prevent weight gain in healthy people.
Resist temptations by exercising. It’s proven to happen in our brains.
Want to find out how much exercise is optimal? Read the article, Ideal Exercise Details Finally Revealed.
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