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Morning can be a good time to help you lose weight through exercise. According to a study published in the journal Obesity, morning activity between seven and nine a.m. can help you lose weight.
“My cautious suggestion from this study is that if we choose to exercise in the morning before eating, we can potentially lose more weight than if we exercised at other times of the day,” said lead researcher Tongyu Ma, an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic. University .
Ma and his team used two years of data from the results of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which includes exercise, diet and lifestyle habits. This study used an accelerometer to measure their activity level and involved more than 5,200 adults aged at least 20 years old.
The data results show that people who exercise moderately to vigorously in the morning have a lower body mass index than people who exercise in the middle of the day or in the evening. However, Ma explained, it can also be due to a number of factors outside of exercise time.
City of Health information, factors other than exercise duration may also play a role, such as the habit of not smoking or consuming alcoholic beverages. People who exercise in the morning consume fewer calories and, interestingly, spend more time sedentary than others.
Ma cautions that only clinical trials can truly determine whether morning exercise is best. In clinical trials, researchers can look at people of the same age, with the same lifestyle and eating habits, and the same amount of time exercising, so they can directly compare results.
“The results are interesting for science, but not safe enough to use to recommend morning exercise for optimal health,” said Cameron Mitchell, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. , who did not participate in the study. new search.
Ross Andersen, professor of exercise physiology, medicine and nutrition at McGill University in Montreal, also answered this question. He said it is difficult to identify the benefits seen in exercise alone. People who exercise in the morning are also likely to engage in other healthy behaviors that contribute to weight loss and good health.
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