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Hormonal
High-intensity acute exercise suppresses hunger and food intake, whereas low-to-moderate intensity exercise does not significantly affect appetite or food intake.
If your goal is to suppress appetite immediately after working out, prioritize high-intensity exercise (above 60% VO2max). Low and moderate intensity workouts will not provide this appetite-suppressing effect and may even increase hunger.
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Interestingly, studies conducted with high intensity exercise reported that acute intense exercise suppressed hunger and energy intake... Unlike low and moderate intensity short-term exercise, high intensity short-term exercise generally induced short-term negative energy balance and were found to suppress hunger
Why this rating
The paper is a review summarizing multiple studies with conflicting or context-dependent findings.
Source
Obesity, food intake and exercise: Relationship with ghrelin
Gül Tiryaki-Sönmez et al. · Biomedical Human Kinetics · 2015
DOI 10.1515/bhk-2015-0018
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