With this intense heat most of us find that swimming either in pools or on the shores of the sea are the perfect option, but did you notice that you are suffering from hunger after the end of the swim and out of the water? Yes, everyone feels very hungry after the swim, but why does it happen? And why is the munchies meal can not do without it after swimming?

Swim has a large effect on your body, you are not alone from under it. Science is the answer to explain this phenomenon.

Workout

Swimming, like any other physical activity, burns calories, which can also cause increased production of ghrelin, a hormone responsible for hunger, drives you to eat and make up for what was burned. One study in 1999 showed that the practice of swimming exercises make us feel tendencies to salty foods in general.

Laws of thermodynamics

Swimming is not just an exercise of the lungs, heart and muscles only, but they push your body to do extra work to keep the temperature inside the body in the normal range. This principle is similar to the process of exercise and burn more calories, and research suggests that the body will burn more fat structure when the temperature is low, the rate of metabolism becomes faster so it keeps you warm.

Swimming in cold water and hunger

Numerous studies have shown, including one from the University of Florida, that there is a relationship between swimming in cold water and leave hungry (although the difference in the amount of calories between swimming in the cold water, warm water, it is important), as the cold make you feel hungry, and most likely you will go fast food and snacks.

Of course, if you follow a specific diet and do not want a lot of snacks after swimming, you can be played fast walking on the edge of the pool to raise the body temperature.