Does What You Eat after You Exercise Matter?

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When you are doing your daily workout routine does it really matter what you eat after it? As regards the amount of fat, you will burn. Scientists have now discovered that what you eat afterwards is quite important as to regard as to how much fat you actually burn so it seems that we may not know about actual processes that happen after we have finished our exercises and have something to eat.

What they managed to find out in this particular study is the way that insulin sensitivity actually worked during and after exercise, and what you eat afterwards, which makes the difference. And the greater difference was when you have eaten something with a lower carbohydrate content.

This all tends to centre around something called insulin sensitivity and how your body processes food when you have eaten it. The study noted how the differences were between insulin sensitivity, which, in a nutshell, means whether or not this particular way of converting energy is used by your muscles for energy or not it when you have enhanced insulin sensitivity it is easier for your body to use sugar as fuel.

When the participants in this particular study ate low calorie meals after their exercise this didn’t change their insulin sensitivity so you don’t really need to starve yourself after your exercise routine, even when they matched the amount of calories that they had eaten and burned the same amount off during exercise even this didn’t affect their insulin sensitivity.

The participants involved in the study were nine sedentary men and were in the age group 28 to 30 years old. In conclusion, it was found when the participants ate the lower carbohydrate meals after their exercise than they had better insulin sensitivity, which helps the body to send the fuel to your muscles, which is expended as energy. Yet another useful nugget of information for people trying to lose weight. I must say it’s something that I wasn’t aware of myself.

Source and references :

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100128122142.htm

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