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Empezar una rutina regular de actividad f\u00edsica promueve una alimentaci\u00f3n equilibrada en las personas, haciendo que bajar de peso sea m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil y efectivo. Esto fue comprobado mediante un estudio encabezado por el neur\u00f3logo Miguel Alonso, de la Universidad de Harvard. Se lleg\u00f3 a esta conclusi\u00f3n tras analizar el funcionamiento coordinado de distintas \u00e1reas del cerebro. <\/p>\n
\u00abCon el tiempo el ejercicio potencia las funciones ejecutivas, incluyendo la habilidad de inhibirse a uno mismo. Este factor ayuda a resistir muchas tentaciones que enfrentamos todos los d\u00edas en una sociedad donde la comida, especialmente la hipercal\u00f3rica, es cada vez m\u00e1s omnipresente\u00bb, afirm\u00f3. <\/p>\n
Los especialistas involucrados en el estudio explicaron que einvestigaciones epidemiol\u00f3gicas previas muestran la conexi\u00f3n entre la actividad f\u00edsica y la alimentaci\u00f3n sana, que suelen venir de la mano. Por otro lado, tambi\u00e9n se sabe que el ejercicio genera cambios en la estructura y el funcionamiento del cerebro, algo que logra modificaciones en las funciones cognitivas. <\/p>\n
Por su parte Alonso observ\u00f3 que \u00abla actividad f\u00edsica regular mejora los resultados en las pruebas que miden el estado de las funciones del cerebro y aumenta la cantidad de materia gris y las conexiones prefrontales\u00bb. Una de las capacidades que mejora es la del autocontrol, es decir la posibilidad de dejar de lado impulsos o deseos que atentan contra un objetivo ideado por uno mismo. De hecho, cuando la actividad f\u00edsica se agrega a un r\u00e9gimen para bajar de peso, el tratamiento de la obesidad es m\u00e1s exitoso y se logra una mayor adherencia a la dieta en el largo plazo\u00bb. El experto afirm\u00f3 que estos hallazgos pueden mejorar la eficiencia de los programas para dar batalla a la obesidad. <\/p>\n
\u00abComprender la interacci\u00f3n entre el ejercicio y una dieta sana podr\u00eda mejorar las medidas preventivas y terap\u00e9uticas contra la obesidad al fortalecer los tratamientos y enfoques actuales\u00bb, afirm\u00f3 Alonso. <\/p>\n
Exercise helps us to eat a healthy diet<\/strong> \u00abUnderstanding the interaction between exercise and a healthy diet could improve preventative and therapeutic measures against obesity by strengthening current approaches and treatments,\u00bb explains Miguel Alonso, researcher at Harvard University (USA) who has published a bibliographical compilation on the subject, to SINC.<\/p>\n The data from epidemiological studies suggest that tendencies towards a healthy diet and the right amount of physical exercise often come hand in hand. Furthermore, an increase in physical activity is usually linked to a parallel improvement in diet quality.<\/p>\n Exercise also brings benefits such as an increase in sensitivity to physiological signs of fullness. This not only means that appetite can be controlled better but it also modifies hedonic responses to food stimuli. Therefore, benefits can be classified as those that occur in the short term (of metabolic predominance) and those that are seen in the long term (of behavioural predominance).<\/p>\n According to Alonso Alonso, \u00abphysical exercise seems to encourage a healthy diet. In fact, when exercise is added to a weight-loss diet, treatment of obesity is more successful and the diet is adhered to in the long run.\u00bb<\/p>\n The authors of the study state how important it is for social policy to encourage and facilitate sport and physical exercise amongst the population. This should be present in both schools and our urban environment or daily lives through the use of public transport or availability of pedestrianised areas and sports facilities.<\/p>\n Eating and physical activity are behaviours and are therefore influenced by cognitive processes that are a result of activity in different areas of the brain. Previous studies have already assessed changes in the brain and cognitive functions in relation to exercise: regular physical exercise causes changes in the working and structure of the brain.<\/p>\n The experts point out that these changes seem to have a certain specificity. The Harvard researcher supports the notion that \u00abregular exercise improves output in tests that measure the state of the brain’s executive functions and increases the amount of grey matter and prefrontal connections.\u00bb<\/p>\n Inhibitory control is one of the executive functions of the brain and is basically the ability to suppress inadequate and non-conforming answers to an aim (the opposite of this would be impulsiveness), which makes modification or self-regulations of a behaviour possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Empezar una rutina regular de actividad f\u00edsica promueve una alimentaci\u00f3n equilibrada en las personas, haciendo que bajar de peso sea m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil y efectivo. Esto fue comprobado mediante un estudio encabezado por el neur\u00f3logo Miguel Alonso, de la Universidad de Harvard. Se lleg\u00f3 a esta conclusi\u00f3n tras analizar el funcionamiento coordinado de distintas \u00e1reas del cerebro. \u00abCon el tiempo el ejercicio potencia las funciones ejecutivas, incluyendo la habilidad de inhibirse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,48087],"tags":[2958,921,2011],"views":615,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA healthy diet and the right amount of exercise are key players in treating and preventing obesity but we still know little about the relationship both factors have with each other. A new study now reveals that an increase in physical activity is linked to an improvement in diet quality.<\/p>\n