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The acute effect of exercise on appetite

Institution:

University of Birmingham

Dept/School/Faculty:

School of Sport and Exercise Sciences

PhD Supervisor:

Dr A Blannin

Application Deadline:

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Availability:

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

PhD Research Project

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In a world where technological advances reduce the necessity to perform physical activity, busy lifestyles mean most people claim lack of time for not exercising, and the food industry invests huge sums of money in improving food palatability, it is perhaps not surprising that the prevalence of obesity is increasing. If we are to curb the rising tide of obesity we need to know more about the regulation of human appetite and ways to manipulate it. The acute effect of exercise on appetite is a relatively poorly understood relationship. It is very hard to draw firm conclusions from this literature, because of the large variety of exercise protocols and outcome measures that have been employed. However, there does appear to be an emerging theme, that is mild to moderate intensity exercise does not significantly alter appetite (eg. George and Morganstein 2003), while moderate to high intensity exercise appears to temporarily suppress appetite (Broom et al. 2007, 2009).
Therefore, because exercise can alter the circulating concentration of appetite hormones, and these hormones can influence feeding and activity of reward-related areas of the brain, we aim to investigate the coupling of exercise-endocrinology-brain-appetite. The aim is to investigate whether exercise alters our cravings for food and, if so, can this be explained by changes in the blood and/or brain.

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Funding Notes:

We welcome applications from Home/EU and overseas students. The University of Birmingham offers a number of competitive scholarships for students of the highest calibre. Further details are available at : http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/students/fees/postgraduate/scholarships/index.aspx.
Students are also welcome to apply with their own funding for this project, either through their own person funds or by securing a scholarship.
Eligibility requirements: An Undergraduate Honours degree with a minimum classification of a 2.1 or equivalent and an English Language qualification for international students.

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 Results

Unit of Assessment: Sports-Related Studies				What is the RAE?
FTE Category A Staff Submitted	4*	3*	2*	1*	U/C
32.8	25%	35%	30%	10%	0%

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