Scientifically, Exercise Is Better Before Breakfast To Avoid Diabetes

Illustration of breakfast after exercise (Pexels / Nathan Cowley)

JAKARTA - Everyone is recommended to exercise regardless of the problem of being overweight or obese. For those who are overweight, regular exercise is needed to avoid type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Based on a recent study, the best time to exercise is before breakfast. Why is this the best time to avoid diabetes? Because it is related to the rate of insulin in the body.

Reporting from Science Alert, Wednesday, April 7, insulin is a hormone that helps control blood sugar levels. After eating, especially foods containing carbohydrates, sugar will be carried to the muscles and stored as a source of energy.

When a person rarely exercises, the weight gain will be faster. This means that you need to produce more insulin. This is why the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease will increase due to being overweight.

Insulin often does not work effectively on the body. To keep the body sensitive and produce enough insulin, it needs to be stimulated by moving more. Based on the study, for six weeks of cycling for 50 minutes, insulin response increases after exercise.

In exercises that are supervised for three times a week and performed by men, the result is less insulin production which is able to control their blood sugar levels. This means that the risk of type 2 diabetes is lower.

Conversely, men who do the same exercise after breakfast do not show an increase in insulin response in the blood.

Exercise before eating, besides making insulin work more effectively, it also burns about twice the amount of fat during exercise compared to the group that exercised after breakfast.

A twofold reduction in the amount of fat did occur. But avoid losing more weight because you exercise before breakfast. This is often misunderstood by many people. They exercise without breakfast even though energy balance is an important factor.

What needs to be taken into account when losing weight is the amount of energy consumed from food and drink minus the amount of energy released by the body. Well, the amount of energy released by the body in addition to daily activities is also burned through exercise.

It is scientifically proven that energy will be bad if you skip breakfast and exercise. That means, exercise continues and breakfast should not be left behind.