Breakfast could "Prime" the Body to Burn Carbs in Exercise

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/breakfast-could-prime-the-body-to-burn-carbs-in-exercise-307732?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=65269204&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8kw-6crVKZzfxDcdBm7i7k94nyzkAnbV_551fdLwLtqBqlyLraIr7wuJW5KiDC07ODpm_HTIDW5RCXJKUshqO12B0jLw&_hsmi=65269206 The volunteers ate a breakfast of porridge made with milk two hours before exercise. Post exercise or rest, the researchers tested the blood glucose levels and muscle glycogen levels of the 12 healthy male volunteers who took part. They discovered that eating breakfast increased the rate at which the body burned carbohydrates during exercise, as well as increasing the rate the body digested and metabolised food eaten after exercise too. Dr Javier Gonzalez, senior lecturer in the Department of Health who co-led the study, said: “This is the first study to examine the ways in which breakfast before exercise influences our responses to meals after exercise. We found that, compared to skipping breakfast, eating breakfast before exercise increases the speed at which we digest, absorb and metabolise carbohydrate that we may eat after exercise.” Rob Edinburgh, PhD student also in the Department who co-led the study, said: “We also found that breakfast before exercise increases carbohydrate burning during exercise, and that this carbohydrate wasn't just coming from the breakfast that was just eaten, but also from carbohydrate stored in our muscles as glycogen. This increase in the use of muscle glycogen may explain why there was more rapid clearance of blood sugar after ‘lunch’ when breakfast had been consumed before exercise. “This study suggests that, at least after a single bout of exercise, eating breakfast before exercise may ‘prime’ our body, ready for rapid storage of nutrition when we eat meals after exercise.”