Exercise More, Eat More

Posting Date: 12/13/2004

Work Hard, Eat Hard

A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests what many women claim they already knew: high-intensity exercise makes them eat more. Previous studies had shown that high-intensity exercise blunts the appetite of men. But few studies had been done on women ? until now. "The Canadian study showed that women who exercised very intensely ate more than women who exercised moderately or not at all," said Beth Kitchin, M.S., R.D., of UAB's EatRight Information Service. "In fact, they ate enough to make up for the calories that they burned during exercise." Kitchin said to find a healthy balance between calories burned and calories consumed if weight loss is your goal.

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