Human trials
Measuring fuel use over one day
Exercise Increases 24-h Fat Oxidation Only When It Is Performed Before Breakfast
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What it found
Pre-breakfast exercise increased 24-hour fat oxidation in this experiment.
Keep these limits in view
Meal state and clock time differed together. This measured fuel use, not a long-term change in body fat.
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- Evidence type
- Randomized repeated-measures laboratory experiment
- Population or scope
- Healthy young men
- Sample or coverage
- 10 participants
- Study duration or data period
- Four separate 24-hour calorimetry conditions
- Comparison
- Cycling before breakfast, after lunch or after dinner, and a sedentary condition; energy balance controlled.
- Measured outcomes
- Measured energy expenditure and substrate oxidation.
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