Holiday Fat Hack: Ways to Eat Like a Santa and Not Turn out to be One [Body Hack]

You know you’re going to swallow whole ham, 12 gingerbread cookies and six glasses of egg nog over the holidays. It’s just going to happen. You can run 26 miles after the wear is finished. But there’s an easier way .

A new study in the Journal of Physiology shows that exercising within the morning, before you eat anything at all, is the right way to skim off fat you’d otherwise put on by binging on crazy fatty over the subsequent two weeks.

In the study, two exercise groups composed of ” healthy, active men” ate roughly an analogous crappy diet and performed a similar rigorous exercise routines (60-90 minutes), 4 days every week. So, same caloric intake, some caloric expenditure. One group exercised on an empty stomach within the morning, drinking only water while exercising. The alternative, ate a ” hefty, carbohydrate-rich breakfast before exercising” and drank something like Gatorade during.

The group that gained almost no weight despite weeks of a foul diet? The person who exercised before breakfast. They burned fat more efficiently. Or as the study’s authors put it, the study ” indicates that exercise training inside the fasted state is more advantageous than exercise within the carbohydrate-fed state to stimulate glucose tolerance despite a hypercaloric high-fat diet.”

This is how I’ve always approached food and exercise. Looks as if I guessed correctly! Inspect the complete report and the Times’ writeup here: [ Journal of Physiology via NYT ] Image by Pascal /Flickr, used under CC license]

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