Cited by 119Regulation of Appetite and ObesityAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic DiseasesCardiovascular and exercise physiology

Effect of moderate - and high-intensity acute exercise on appetite in obese individuals

Open access
MARTINS, CATIA, STENSVOLD, DORTHE, FINLAYSON, GRAHAM, HOLST, JENS, WISLOFF, ULRIK, KULSENG, BÅRD, MORGAN, LINDA, KING, NEIL A.·2015·Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Abstract

PURPOSE: The effect of acute exercise, and exercise intensity, on appetite control in obese individuals requires further study. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of acute isocaloric bouts (250 kcal) of high-intensity intermittent cycling (HIIC) and moderate-intensity continuous cycling (MICC) or short-duration HIIC (S-HIIC) (125 kcal) and a resting control condition on the appetite hormone responses, subjective feelings of appetite, energy intake (EI), and food reward in overweight/obese individuals. METHODS: This study is a randomized crossover study on 12 overweight/obese volunteers. Participants were assigned to the control, MICC, HIIC, and S-HIIC conditions, 1 wk apart, in a counterbalanced order. Exercise was performed 1 h after a standard breakfast. An ad libitum test lunch was served 3 h after breakfast. Fasting/postprandial plasma samples of insulin, acylated ghrelin, polypeptide YY3-36, and glucagon-like peptide 1 and subjective feelings of appetite were measured every 30 min for 3 h. Nutrient and taste preferences were measured at the beginning and end of each condition using the Leeds Food Preference Questionnaire. RESULTS: Insulin levels were significantly reduced, and glucagon-like peptide 1 levels significantly increased during all exercise bouts compared with those during rest. Acylated ghrelin plasma levels were lower in the MICC and HIIC, but not in S-HIIC, compared with those in control. There were no significant differences for polypeptide YY3-36 plasma levels, hunger or fullness ratings, EI, or food reward. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that, in overweight/obese individuals, isocaloric bouts of moderate- or high-intensity exercise lead to a similar appetite response. This strengthens previous findings in normal-weight individuals that acute exercise, even at high intensity, does not induce any known physiological adaptation that would lead to increased EI.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1249/mss.0000000000000372

Cites

29 of 29 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. Broom DR, Stensel DJ, Bishop NC, Burns SF, Miyashita M. Exercise-induced suppression of acylated ghrelin in humans. J. Appl. Physiol. 2007;102(6):2165-71.
  2. Varo JJ, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, De Irala-Estevez J, Kearney J, Gibney M, Martinez JA. Distribution and determinants of sedentary lifestyles in the European Union. Int. J. Epidemiol. 2003;32(1):138-46.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
MARTINS, C., STENSVOLD, D., FINLAYSON, G., HOLST, J., WISLOFF, U., KULSENG, B., MORGAN, L., & KING, N. A.
Affiliations
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
  • University of Leeds (GB)
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Venue
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Published
2015-01
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
40-48
ISSN
0195-9131 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1573491679
Cited by
119
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1
FWCI
4.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
  • Faculty of Health
Funders
  • Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
  • Helse Midt-Norge
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Keywords
acute exercise, appetite regulation, obesity, energy intake, ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide-1, insulin, peptide YY, food reward, food preferences, hunger and fullness
MeSH terms
Acylation, Adult, Appetite, Energy Intake, Physical Exertion, Female, Food Preferences, Humans, Insulin, Male, Obesity, Peptide Fragments, Reward, Taste, Exercise, Cross-Over Studies, Peptide YY, Glucagon-Like Peptide 1, Ghrelin, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review