Scientists have claimed that overweight people will see greater health benefits if they exercise at a specific time of day.A UK Biobank study that took place over eight years has revealed that exercise between the hours of 6pm and midnight has been linked to greater health benefits for obese people.University of Sydney researchers explored the lives of 30,000 participants for this specific study that has been published in the journal, Diabetes Care.Experts used fitness trackers to conduct their research which found that those who did the majority of their hard physical exercise at night had the lowest risk of premature death and dying from cardiovascular disease.Short bursts of activity lasting three minutes that left people out of breath also appeared to be crucial rather than their total amount of physical activity on the regular.Dr Angelo Sabag, Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre said: "Exercise is by no means the only solution to the obesity crisis, but this research does suggest that people who can plan their activity into certain times of the day may best offset some of these health risks. "Due to a number of complex societal factors, around two in three Australians have excess weight or obesity which puts them at a much greater risk of major cardiovascular conditions such as heart attacks and stroke, and premature death." The authors of the study said that what they found was 'significant' due to the larger scale of the study as they defined exercise as anything as strenuous for at least three minutes.Joint first author Dr Matthew Ahmadi National Heart Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the University, said: "We didn’t discriminate on the kind of activity
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