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Early evening exercise pays off for blood sugars
Exercising at any time of the day is good for you, but a new Australian study has shown that people who do something physically active during the early evening hours had better overnight blood glucose management. While researchers found that both morning and evening exercise sessions produced similar improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, overnight glycaemic control only improved in the study participants who were active later in the day.
“That’s important because one of the things individuals with type 2 diabetes experience are nocturnal spikes in glucose,” says the study’s lead author, Trine Moholdt from ACU’s Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research. “Our study was able to show that we could flatten those nocturnal spikes and that’s a really important finding because not only were night-time glucose concentrations lower, the cholesterol was lower as well.”
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