You probably know that there are benefits to eating breakfast. Regular breakfast eaters tend to be leaner and are more successful at losing weight. Breakfast also provides a chance to get in some healthy food groups—whole grains, fruit, milk—so it’s no wonder breakfast eaters usually have a higher-quality diet than nonbreakfast eaters. But when it comes to what time you eat breakfast, does it make a difference? If you’re a morning exerciser, is does.Must-Read:
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Should You Eat Breakfast, Even When You’re Not Hungry?Eating breakfast after working out may be the smarter choice, writes Holly Pevzner in the May/June issue of EatingWell Magazine. That’s the finding from a new study published in The Journal of Physiology. For the 6-week study, researchers split exercisers into three groups—one exercised on an empty stomach and ate breakfast afterward, the second ate before the workout, while a third ate the breakfast without exercising, acting as the control. I should mention that the breakfast was very high in calories (675)—not exactly what most people eat each day—and that’s what makes the results all the more surprising.
Breakfast before or after exercise—which torches more fat?
