Burn More Calories? Eat an Egg Before Exercise
Eat an egg. Chew a cheese stick. Swallow a hunk of steak. Then, go exercise. Experts are now promising that some women who do this will lose more weight, or lose it faster. According to newswise.com, "A high-protein meal followed by 30 minutes of moderate exercise is an effective way of burning calories, especially when compared to exercising on an empty stomach." I was actually told this several years ago when I had a trainer for three months. He suggested I eat something, anything, before I went for my jog. I usually picked fruit and I can't say it helped me lose much weight (maybe I chose the wrong thing). The idea? You will exercise longer and tire less, if you have food in your stomach. But this new study found something else. “We looked at the effects of protein consumption alone on total energy expenditure, and protein consumption combined with exercise,” newswise quotes Ashley Binns, a doctoral student in kine...