Medical Research Council Scientists are to play a key role in a new European project costing 12.7m Euros, to understand more about exactly how exercise affects the body. The MRC contribution will study how key enzymes are regulated and should increase our understanding of the essential mechanisms governing appetite, food intake and energy consumption.
Learning more about how the body responds to exercise at a molecular level will, for example increase our understanding of how the body regulates energy intake in the form of food and appetite control and energy output such as burning off fat and affecting metabolic rate. This could help tackle major metabolic illnesses such as Type II diabetes, conditions such as obesity and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, which are partly associated with the fast food, sedentary lifestyle of the 21st century.
Researchers led by Professor David Carling at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre in London have been allocated £335,000 to look at the effects of exercise at a molecular and biochemical level.
