Data from: Effects of an acute bout of aerobic exercise on immediate and subsequent three-day food intake and energy expenditure in active and inactive pre-menopausal women taking oral contraceptives

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This study examined the effects of an acute bout of exercise of low-intensity on food intake and energy expenditure over four days in women taking oral contraceptives. Twenty healthy, active (n = 10) and inactive (n = 10) pre-menopausal women taking oral contraceptives completed two conditions (exercise and control), in a randomised, crossover fashion. The exercise experimental day involved cycling for one hour at an intensity equivalent to 50% of maximum oxygen uptake and two hours of rest. The control condition comprised three hours of rest. Participants arrived at the laboratory fasted overnight; breakfast was standardised and an ad libitum pasta lunch was consumed on each experimental day. Participants kept a food diary to measure food intake and wore an Actiheart to measure energy expenditure for the remainder of the experimental days and over the subsequent 3 days. There was a condition effect for absolute energy intake (exercise vs. control: 3363 ± 668 kJ vs. 3035 ± 752 kJ; p = 0.033, d = 0.49) and relative energy intake (exercise vs. control: 2019 ± 746 kJ vs. 2710 ± 712 kJ; p < 0.001, d = −1.00) at the ad libitum lunch. There were no significant differences in energy intake over the four days in active participants and there was a suppression of energy intake on the first day after the exercise experimental day compared with the same day of the control condition in inactive participants (mean difference = −1974 kJ; 95% CI −1048 to −2900 kJ, p = 0.002, d = −0.89). There was a group effect (p = 0.001, d = 1.63) for freeliving energy expenditure, indicating that active participants expended more energy than inactive participants during this period. However, there were no compensatory changes in daily physical activity energy expenditure. These results support the use of low-intensity aerobic exercise as a method to induce a short-term negative energy balance in inactive women taking oral contraceptives.

Keywords: exercise, food intake, oral contraceptives, appetite, active, inactive
Creators:
Academic units: Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB) > Academic Departments > Academy of Sport and Physical Activity
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB) > Research Centres > Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre (BSRC)
Sheffield Business School (SBS) > Research Centres > Sheffield Business School Research Institute
Funders:
Funder NameGrant NumberFunder ID
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/H000275/1http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
Publisher of the data: SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA)
Publication date: 23 March 2015
Data last accessed: 9 August 2018
DOI: http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-150001
SHURDA URI: http://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1

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