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To Eat or Not to Eat Before Exercise?Is it best to eat before your run or to wait until after? The answer is not so simple. As Healthline reported, certain findings suggest fasting before exercise may help burn more fat, but some experts aren’t sure that strategy is good for overall fitness. Here’s what you need to know to decide for yourself:
While these studies found fasting to be beneficial in terms of fat tissue breakdown, some experts aren’t convinced this is ideal. For example, Jennifer Lea, director of client training and performance coach at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, stressed that your body performs better when it has food for fuel. Without fuel, your body will break down stored fat, but it will also break down protein, reducing your muscle-building ability. She concluded that, overall, this does you a disservice, since muscle mass is important for healthy aging, performance, and metabolism. Instead of fasting before exercise, Lea recommended:
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