Welcome at the Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health!
Our overarching goal is to understand the interactions between diet and exercise and how we can use this knowledge to improve human health and performance. We are particularly interested in the multiple pathways how exercise affects energy balance, and how acute and chronic under- or overeating impact the regulation of body weight, body composition, metabolism, and musculoskeletal health.
News
Our recent publication in the International Journal of Sports Medicine seeks to parallel and examine differences between the cellular and molecular effects of exercise with those of cold exposure on white and brown adipose tissue. White adipose tissue is the storage form of fat, whereas brown…
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Our recent publication in the European Journal of Applied Physiology examines the response of anabolic hormones, namely Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1, to a heavy weightlifting session during weight loss. These hormones are important because they help mediate the benefits of…
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Prof. Köhler was part of a new publication in the journal PLoS ONE led by Dr. Maital Neta from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). The publication addressed the question whether people who are physically more active are more “positive” – that is, do they interpret situations which are…
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With this paper, we wanted to answer whether normal college women exhibit relationships between eating behavior traits (e.g. dietary restraint, body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness) and health behaviors (e.g. diet and physical activity) frequently seen in eating disorder patients and figure…
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