For those who can stomach it, working out before breakfast may be more beneficial for health than eating first, according to a study of meal timing and physical activity.
研究过程(procedure)
They tested the men’s fitness and resting metabolic (新陈代谢的) rates and took samples (样品) of their blood and fat tissue.
研究方法(method)
数据(data)
Just before and an hour after each workout, the scientists took additional samples of the men’s blood and fat tissue.
结论一:. As a result, they burned more fat during walks on an empty stomach than when they had eaten first.
结论二;On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories (卡路里), on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.
被试(subjucts)
They first found 10 overweight and inactive but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those of most of us.
研究新发现(new discovery)
纵横对比
Many of these genes produce proteins (蛋白质) that can improve blood sugar regulation and insulin (胰岛素) levels throughout the body and so are associated with improved metabolic health.
研究应用成果(application)
改进生活
The implication of these results is that to gain the greatest health benefits from exercise, it may be wise to skip eating first.
4.What could be learned from the research?
D.Physical exercise before breakfast is better for health.
3.What happened to those who ate breakfast before exercise?B.They consumed a bit more calories.
2.Why were the 10 people chosen for the experiment?
A.Their lifestyles were typical of ordinary people.
1.The underlined expression “stomach it” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “______”.
A.digest the meal easily B.manage without breakfast