Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Hot on the heels of National Diabetes Month, there is a new study that has shown

exercising before eating breakfast can actually improve how your body responds to insulin.

Now, okay, I know National Diabetes Month is all but over, but I could not let it pass

completely without taking a look at one potentially easy way to aid in the fight against this troublesome condition.

So in a new study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,

health scientists at the University of Bath in Birmingham set out to assess the acute

and chronic effects of exercise performed before versus after nutrient

ingestion, or breakfast, as us non-scientists call it, on whole body and intramuscular

lipid utilization, or fat burning, as we like to call it, and post-pranthal glucose metabolism, or insulin sensitivity.

This six-week study was performed on 30 men who had been previously classified as obese or

overweight and compared the results from three groups. Number one, one group who ate breakfast

before exercising, one group that ate breakfast after exercising, and then a control group, which

made no changes at all to their lifestyle. So I think it's important to point out right off

the bat, whether the men in this study ate their breakfast meal before

or after exercising did not make any difference in terms of weight loss over the six-week

testing period. But the timing of the meals did have, and I quote, a profound and positive

effect on their health.

Now, I think it's important to make this point because there's this notion in the wellness sphere that by exercising in a fasted state, you will literally burn the fat off your body.

And while researchers did find that the subjects used more fat from their fatty

tissue and from the fat that's in the muscles as fuel, it did not result in some sort of

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