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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Malvika Padin

Study finds best time of day to exercise for controlling blood sugar

Many of us have the habit of getting through our fitness routine in the morning when we're still fresh and full of energy.

While early workouts are perfectly good for your health, a new study has from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands has found that exercising in the afternoon or evening might be more useful in cutting your body's insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance is when cells in the muscles, fat and liver find it more difficult to take up glucose from the blood, leaving the pancreas to work harder to produce insulin.

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