Timing Matters: Blood sugar control improves with exercise before breakfast, finds research

Blood sugar control improves with exercise before breakfast in overweight, is the finding of new research.

Regular exercise and reducing sitting time are important for good health. According to doctors, as a general goal, one should aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity every day. If one wishes to lose weight, maintain weight loss or meet specific fitness goals, then more exercise may be required.

But does timing of exercise has any role in enhancing health benefits or not is clear. A new study has revealed that the health benefits of exercise are enhanced by working out before breakfast. The researchers found that by changing the timing of when you eat and exercise, people can better control their blood sugar levels. 

The 6 week study, which involved 30 men classified as obese or overweight and compared results from 2 intervention groups ( who ate breakfast before / after exercise) and a control group ( who made no lifestyle changes), found that people who performed exercises before breakfast burned double the amount of fat than the group who exercised after breakfast.

They found that increased fat use is mainly due to lower insulin levels during exercise when people have fasted overnight, which means that they can use more of the fat from their fat tissue and the fat within their muscles as a fuel. To test proof-of-principle the initial study involved only men, but future studies will look to translate these findings for different groups including women.

Whilst this did not lead to any differences for weight loss over 6 weeks, it did have profound and positive effects on their health because their bodies were better able to respond to insulin, keeping blood sugar levels under control and potentially lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Building on emerging evidence that the timing of meals in relation to exercise can shift how effective exercise is, the team behind this study wanted to focus on the impact on the fat stores in muscles for individuals who either worked out before or after eating and the effect his had on insulin response to feeding.

A Dr. explained, our results suggest that changing the timing of when you eat in relation to when you exercise can bring about profound and positive changes to your overall health.

We found that the men in the study who exercised before breakfast burned double the amount of fat than the group who exercised after . Importantly, whilst this didn't have any effect on weight loss, it did dramatically improve their overall health.

The group who exercised before breakfast increased their ability to respond to insulin, which is all the more remarkable given that both exercises groups lost a similar amount of weight and both gained a similar amount og fitness. The only difference was the timing of the food intake.

Over the 6-week trial, the scientists found that the muscles from the group who exercised before breakfast were more responsive to insulin compared to the group who exercised after breakfast, in spite of identical training sessions and matched food intake. The muscles from those who exercised before breakfast also showed greater increases in key proteins, specifically those involved in transporting glucose from the bloodstream to the muscles.

For the insulin response to feeding after the 6 week study, remarkably, the group who exercised after breakfast were in fact no better than the control group.

One of the researchers added, this work suggests that performing the exercise in the overnight-fasted state can increase the health benefits of exercise for individuals, without changing the intensity, duration or perception of their effort. We now need to explore the longer-term effects of this type of exercise and whether women benefit in the same way as men.
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THE BENEFITS OF GETTING UP EVERY 30 MINUTES !

Whether you’re a heavy sitter or a binge-sitter, racking up prolonged sedentary time increases your risk of early death, according to a study.

That conclusion held up even after researchers took account of mitigating factors, such as time spent exercising. The findings led the authors to suggest that people who sit a lot should get up and move around every 30 minutes.

The study team, tracked the movements of close to 8,000 Americans older than 45 by asking them to wear an accelerometer on their hip. Over 10 days, sitting or lounging behavior took up the equivalent of 12.3 hours over a 16-hour waking day — about 77 percent, on average.

That’s a whole lot of sitting. But when researchers measured the “bout length” of subjects’ sitting spells, they found that 52 percent lasted less than a half-hour, 22 percent lasted between a half-hour and just under an hour, 14 percent lasted 60 to 89 minutes and 14 percent went on for more than 90 minutes.

After tracking subjects for four years, the researchers found a pattern: Those whose sitting bouts tended to be lengthier were more likely to have died.

Make no mistake, the authors cautioned: “Accumulation of large volumes of sedentary time is a hazardous health behavior regardless of how it is accumulated.” But shorter bouts of sitting “is the least harmful pattern of accumulation.”

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