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Archive for the ‘Race Day Nutrition’ Category
01May
High Fat Diets get the Final Thumbs Down at the Finish Line

For those skinny biker dudes who can eat a couple of cheddar bratwurst and still looked ripped, I have news.  According to nutrition expert Louise M. Burke, Department of Sports Nutrition Australian Institute of Sport  Medicine, a steady high fat  does not cut it when the pack takes off on a breakaway.  True, feasting on a steady fat load of calories does promote oxidation of fat during submax exercise, and thus “spares”glycogen.
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