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Your exercise program is more likely to help you burn off the fat that you eat if you consume mostly unsaturated fats.

Topic: Food and Nutrition
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A recent study revealed how exercising helps the body oxidize, or burn, fat consumed long after the workout. However, in the study, exercise appeared to help burn only the unsaturated fats consumed. It had no effect on the rate at which the body oxidized saturated fats eaten at a later meal.

Exercising can help your body burn the fat that you eat even hours after you have finished your workout. However, the kind of fat that you eat makes a difference. Exercise appears to help your body more efficiently burn unsaturated fats eaten at a later meal. Unsaturated fats are fats that come almost exclusively from plants products, such as olive oil or canola oil. Saturated fats come almost exclusively from animal sources, such as lard and butter.

SOURCES: Prior exercise increases subsequent utilization of dietary fat. Votruba, S. B., Atkinson, R. L., Hirvonen, M. D., Schoeller, D. A., Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 2002 Nov;34(11):1757-1765.

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