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Is it possible for you to program your body at breakfast to burn fat throughout the day? Researchers in The University of Tampa’s Human Performance Lab are hypothesizing just that. Jacob Wilson, who oversees the lab that specializes in studying how nutritional supplements impact training, and Ryan Lowery ’14, a recent alumnus and graduate student in UT’s Master of Science in exercise and nutrition science, are using a new, $60,000 MOXUS metabolic cart to test their theory.“Our lab’s specialty is studying how to optimize body composition,” Lowery said.The preliminary study is being conducted this summer, and Wilson and Lowery presented their findings at last weekend’s International Society of Sports Nutrition national conference. The researchers looked at five test subjects, feeding them three meals a day — about 2,400 calories at the ratio of 50 percent carbohydrates, 25 percent fat and 25 percent protein — over four days, hunkered down in the lab. They looked at the metabolic condition (like percent of carbohydrates and fat used, fat, basal metabolic rate and total caloric expenditure) when starting out the day with several scenarios including the following:
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