In the authors' words
“Daily moderate intensity exercise, without concomitant changes in body fat mass, suppressed fasting and postprandial circulating leptin concentrations after consumption of a short-term high-carbohydrate diet.”
What was measured
- Blood sugar and insulin Direction not stated
About the study
- Type
- Controlled trial
- Who took part
- Postmenopausal
- How many
- 8
- Exercise
- Walking, Exercise with diet
- Cited
- 35 times, per Europe PMC
- PubMed ID
- 12861230
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Similar studies
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- Overweight postmenopausal women at high diabetes risk broke up prolonged sitting with brief standing or walking, which reduced after-meal blood glucose and insulin responses compared with uninterrupted sitting.
- Inactive overweight postmenopausal women did 12 months of diet, exercise, or both; insulin resistance improved significantly with diet and with diet plus exercise but not with exercise alone.