Although you may know when you have more energy to exercise, you may not be aware that there\u2019s are times of the day where we burn more calories.<\/p>\n
A study published in Current Biology<\/em> found that we burn 10% more calories later in the day, no matter what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n The research was limited to only seven people because the participants were confined to a lab that had no windows, phones, clocks or the Internet. This ensured that the participants didn\u2019t know what time of day it was.<\/p>\n For three weeks, each participant was given a bedtime and told when to wake up. Each day those times were adjusted by four hours.<\/p>\n By doing this, the researchers forced the participants\u2019 bodies to develop their own patterns, unaware what time it was and unable to settle into a rhythm.<\/p>\n Throughout the day, researchers measured the participants\u2019 metabolic rate to evaluate calorie consumption.<\/p>\n The scientists found that the lowest metabolic rate occurred during the participants\u2019 biological \u201cnight\u201d and the highest metabolic rate was about 12 hours later in what constituted the participants\u2019 biological afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that doing the same thing at one time of day burned so many more calories than doing the same thing at a different time of day surprised us,\u201d says Kirsi-Marja Zitting, the lead author of the study.<\/p>\n The research was carried out by the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking to put these results into practical use, consider making lunch your biggest meal instead of dinner. You may also want to exercise later in the day to maximize the calories you\u2019re burning.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not only what we eat, but when we eat\u2014and rest\u2014that impacts how much energy we burn or store as fat,\u201d explains another of the researchers, Jeanne Duffy.<\/p>\n \u201cRegularity of habits, such as eating and sleeping, is very important to overall health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although you may know when you have more energy to exercise, you may not be aware that there\u2019s are times of the day where we burn more calories. When you burn more calories A study published in Current Biology found that we burn 10% more calories later in the day, no matter what we\u2019re doing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[887,770,630,732,784],"class_list":["post-13011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","tag-calories","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-nutrition","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to apply the study\u2019s findings<\/h3>\n