{"id":73244,"date":"2019-11-15T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=73244"},"modified":"2019-11-15T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:50:00","slug":"should-you-eat-breakfast-you-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/should-you-eat-breakfast-you-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Eat Breakfast Before You Exercise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">If you\u2019re in the habit of eating breakfast before exercising in the morning, you may want to reconsider the order in which you start your day as there are significant benefits to exercising in a fasted state.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A common belief is that you need to eat breakfast to optimize exercise performance. While there\u2019s evidence to support this stance,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-fitness-breakfast\/skipping-breakfast-may-harm-athletic-performance-later-in-the-day-idUSKBN0OK2DQ20150604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;other evidence suggests you can reap important health benefits by exercising in a fasted state.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Fasted Exercise Curbs Food Intake and Improves Cognition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Research<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jn\/article\/149\/8\/1326\/5440571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/22\/well\/move\/a-possible-weight-loss-strategy-skip-breakfast-before-exercise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> published in the August 2019 issue of The Journal of Nutrition found that skipping breakfast before exercise helps curb food intake for the remainder of the day, resulting in an overall energy deficit&nbsp;\u2014 in this case averaging 400 calories per day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Earlier research,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4517027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;published in 2015, found that women who skipped breakfast and worked out on an empty stomach had better working memory in the midafternoon and reported less mental fatigue and tension later in the day than those who ate breakfast (in this case a cereal-based meal) before exercising.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Fasted Exercise Boosts Fat Loss<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Fasted exercise has also been shown to be particularly helpful for fat loss \u2014 it essentially forces your body to shed fat. The reason for this is because your body&#8217;s fat burning processes are controlled by your sympathetic nervous system (SNS), and your SNS is activated by exercise and lack of food.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:null;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The combination of fasting and exercising maximizes the impact of cellular factors and catalysts (cyclic AMP and AMP kinases) that force the breakdown of fat and glycogen for energy. A 2012 study<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22248495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;confirmed that aerobic training in a fasted state lowered both total body weight and body fat percentage, while exercising in a fed state decreased body weight only.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are significant benefits to exercising in a fasted state. If you&#8217;ve been eating breakfast before your morning workout, you may want to switch the order in which you begin your day. Even though there is evidence to support that eating breakfast may optimize exercise performance, other research suggests you can obtain valuable health benefits while exercising in a fasted state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":73245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should You Eat Breakfast Before You Exercise? - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/should-you-eat-breakfast-you-exercise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should You Eat Breakfast Before You Exercise? - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are significant benefits to exercising in a fasted state. 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