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2022.02.23 覃晔 文本难度：CSE 9

How Exercise Might Affect Our Food Choices, and Our Weight

By Gretchen Reynolds

Taking up exercise could alter our feelings about food in surprising and beneficial ways, according to
a compelling new study of exercise and eating. The study finds that novice exercisers start to
experience less desire for fattening foods, a change that could have long-term implications for weight
control.
The researchers asked a group of sedentary men and women about how they felt about food. Some of
the volunteers then were asked to continue with their normal lives as a control group, while the
others began exercising.
It turns out that the exercisers no longer found high-calorie, fatty foods quite so irresistible.
Interestingly, their scores on measures of “liking,” or how much they expected to enjoy those same
foods, remained unchanged and strong.
In addition to making us healthier, “exercise might improve food reward and eating behavior traits
linked to the susceptibility to overconsume,” says Kristine Beaulieu, a dietitian who led the new
study. In other words, working out for a period of time could nudge us to rethink the kinds of foods
we want to eat.
The study also shows, though, that different people respond quite differently to the same exercise
routine and the same foods, underscoring the complexities of the relationship between exercise,
eating and fat loss.