Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
Probably. For four to six hours after you finish eating a
meal, your body produces a lot of energy to help digest, absorb
and process the food. And this extra energy produces heat and
uses up extra calories that otherwise may have ended up in your
body as fat.
When you exercise, your body produces extra heat
because more than 70 percent of the energy use to power your
muscles is lost as heat. Your temperature continues to stay
elevated and you to burn more calories for several hours after
you finish excising. If you are active after you eat, your body
burns more calories than if you are inactive after you eat, so
most people are far more active after they eat breakfast than
after eating supper and therefore the food that you eat in the
morning is less fattening than what you eat in the evening
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