Exercise after You Eat: Hitting the Postprandial Glucose Target

Melissa L. Erickson; Nathan T. Jenkins; Kevin K. McCully

doi:10.3389/fendo.2017.00228

Frontiers in Endocrinology (Sep 2017)

Exercise after You Eat: Hitting the Postprandial Glucose Target

Melissa L. Erickson,
Nathan T. Jenkins,
Kevin K. McCully

Affiliations

Melissa L. Erickson: Department of Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States
Nathan T. Jenkins: Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Kevin K. McCully: Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2017.00228
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

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We discuss a novel hypothesis: the effect size of postmeal exercise for attenuating postprandial glucose will be a function of the exercise bout vs. the size of the postprandial glucose response, specifically peak and duration of the postprandial glucose excursion.

Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology

ISSN: 1664-2392 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology

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