Exercising Before Mealtime May Improve Postprandial...

Exercising before a meal improves postprandial endothelial function, according to the results of a study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 'Free-living humans spend the majority of their lives in the postprandial state, and the changes to metabolism seen during the hours after meal ingestion are likely to play an important role in the atherosclerotic disease process,' write Jason M.R. Gill, PhD, from the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the U.K., and colleagues. 'There is now a large body of evidence indicating that a single session of moderate exercise can reduce subsequent postprandial lipemia by ~20% to 25%.'