By Chioma Umeha
The study participants were a group of overweight
males who walked for 60 minutes at 60 per cent maximum oxygen consumption on an
empty stomach and, on another occasion, two hours after consuming a
high-calorie carbohydrate-rich breakfast.
If you have been wondering whether it is better to
eat or fast before a workout, researchers now have an answer. A new study has
found that exercise on empty stomach is better for your health in the long
term.
The study analysed effects of eating versus
fasting on gene expression in adipose (fat) tissue in response to exercise.
After eating, adipose tissue “is busy responding
to the meal and a bout of exercise at this time will not stimulate the same
(beneficial) changes in adipose tissue”, explained corresponding author of the
study Dylan Thompson from University of Bath in Britain.
“This means that exercise in a fasted state might
provoke more favourable changes in adipose tissue, and this could be beneficial
for health in the long term,” Thompson added.
If you have been wondering whether it is better to
eat or fast before a workout, researchers now have an answer. A new study has
found thatexercise on empty stomach is better for yourhealth in the long term.
The study analysed effects of eating versus fasting
on gene expression in adipose (fat) tissue in response to exercise.
After eating, adipose tissue “is busy responding
to the meal and a bout of exercise at this time will not stimulate the same
(beneficial) changes in adipose tissue”, explained corresponding author of the
study Dylan Thompson from University of Bath in Britain.
“This means that exercise in a fasted state might
provoke more favourable changes in adipose tissue, and this could be beneficial
for health in the long term,” Thompson added.
“We propose that feeding is likely to blunt
long-term adipose tissue adaptation to regular exercise,” the researchers noted
in the study published in the American Journal of Physiology — Endocrinology
and metabolism.
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