New York Times
Our brain requires fuel. When we have been studying or completing our tax return or trying to negotiate with Telstra, we normally feel hungry afterwards. And, We eat.
Some researchers at Birmingham University, Alabama reasoned that a bout of exercise might push blood sugar and lactates around the body, both of which are brain fuel.
They constructed an elegant experiment. Here is the link to the NYT's article.:-New york Times, how to stop the brain from craving food.
Turns out that those students who sat quietly after a mentally arduous task, consumed 100 calories more pizza than their normal baseline consumption, and those who did 15 minutes of interval training after the mentally arduous task consumed 25 calories fewer than their own baseline amount. And a whopping 200 calories less when you take into account the calories they burned doing their exercise.
Sounds like a win-win to me
No comments:
Post a Comment