Trial reportThe Journal of physiology2013
Exercise counteracts the effects of short-term overfeeding and reduced physical activity independent of energy imbalance in healthy young men.
Trial report in The Journal of physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02333916 (Effects of Short-term Overfeeding With or Without Exercise on 24-hour Fat Oxidation and Fat Balance Before and After 10 Weeks of Training - The FeedEX Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 60 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effects of Short-term Overfeeding With or Without Exercise on 24-hour Fat Oxidation and Fat Balance Before and After 10 Weeks of Training - The FeedEX Study
Who cites it
60 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physical activity, energy expenditure and sedentary parameters in overfeeding studies - a systematic review.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of a combined energy restriction and vigorous-intensity exercise intervention on the human gut microbiome: A randomised controlled trial.The Journal of physiology · 2025Trial
- One week of overeating upregulates angiogenic and lipolytic gene expression in human subcutaneous adipose tissue from exercise trained and untrained adults.Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme · 2022Trial
- The Impact of Long-term Physical Inactivity on Adipose Tissue Immunometabolism.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Trial
- Effects of indulgent food snacking, with and without exercise training, on body weight, fat mass, and cardiometabolic risk markers in overweight and obese men.Physiological reports · 2021Trial
- Effects of Exercise Training during Christmas on Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Health in Overweight Individuals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake.Cell metabolism · 2019Trial
- Metabolic Implications of Diet and Energy Intake during Physical Inactivity.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2019Trial
- Molecular adaptations of adipose tissue to 6 weeks of morning fasting vs. daily breakfast consumption in lean and obese adults.The Journal of physiology · 2018Trial
- Impact of Exercise on Cardiometabolic Component Risks in Spinal Cord-injured Humans.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2017Trial
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- The causal role of breakfast in energy balance and health: a randomized controlled trial in obese adults.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Trial
- The effects of HIIT and MICT on body fat composition and cardiopulmonary fitness in adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Extracellular vesicles contribute to the beneficial effects of exercise training in APP/PS1 mice.iScience · 2025Article
- The Influence of Physical Exercise, Ketogenic Diet, and Time-Restricted Eating on De Novo Lipogenesis: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- The association of diet quality and physical activity with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 85,545 older Australians: A longitudinal study.Journal of sport and health science · 2024Article
- Combined associations of physical activity, diet quality and their changes over time with mortality: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk study, United Kingdom.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Are all sugars equal? Role of the food source in physiological responses to sugars with an emphasis on fruit and fruit juice.European journal of nutrition · 2024Review
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Physical activity can affect many aspects of metabolism but it is unclear to what extent this relies on manipulation of energy balance. Twenty-six active men age 25 ± 7 years (mean ± SD) were randomly assigned either to consume 50% more energy than normal by over-consuming their habitual diet for 7 days whilst simultaneously restricting their physical activity below 4000 steps day(-1) to induce an energy surplus (SUR group; n = 14) or to the same regimen but with 45 min of daily treadmill running at 70% of maximum oxygen uptake (SUR+EX group; n = 12). Critically, the SUR+EX group received additional dietary energy intake to account for the energy expended by exercise, thus maintaining a matched energy surplus. At baseline and follow-up, fasted blood samples and abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsies were obtained and oral glucose tolerance tests conducted. Insulinaemic responses to a standard glucose load increased 2-fold from baseline to follow-up in the SUR group (17 ± 16 nmol (120 min) l(-1); P = 0.002) whereas there was no change in the SUR+EX group (1 ± 6 nmol (120 min) l(-1)). Seven of 17 genes within adipose tissue were differentially expressed in the SUR group; expression of SREBP-1c, FAS and GLUT4 was significantly up-regulated and expression of PDK4, IRS2, HSL and visfatin was significantly down-regulated (P ≤ 0.05). The pAMPK/AMPK protein ratio in adipose tissue was significantly down-regulated in the SUR group (P = 0.005). Vigorous-intensity exercise counteracted most of the effects of short-term overfeeding and under-activity at the whole-body level and in adipose tissue, even in the face of a standardised energy surplus.
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