Now it is know that these drugs increased brain levels of dopamine. Because ever-greater doses are needed to maintain weight loss, such drugs cannot be used to treat obesity without causing severe damage to a person's health. Exercise has a direct effect on these same molecules we find to be abnormal in obese people. So exercise may be able to decrease weight not only by burning calories but also by improving dopamine pathways to make these people more sensitive to being rewarded by things other than food. Laurey R. Simkin-Silverman, PhD, is principal investigator for the Primary Care Weight Control Project at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Exercise also has a link to alleviating mild depression.
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