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Sports nutrition ingredients are often well hidden, because many companies would rather you didn't read them. Here's why
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The best diet for endurance athletes is not as complicated as most experts like to make outWhen it comes to the best diet for endurance athletes there's a ton of information available, but little variety. Most can be boiled down into: Eat X grams of carbs per kilo of bodyweight during exerciseEat Y grams of protein [...]
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Is maltodextrin sugar? Indeed it is. Except it's way cheaper and actually worse for you than regular sugar. It's a junk food staple found in everything from crisps to fizzy drinks and is also packed into ordinary sports nutrition, as well as all manner of other apparently 'healthy' or 'low-sugar/no-sugar' products. This is all thanks to [...]
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The mega marketing job that’s been done by Big Nutrition has oversimplified recovery nutrition for endurance athletes to the point of stupidityIn short, they’ve boiled the whole subject down to just two points: Use carbs to fuelUse protein to recoverThis works a treat for Big Nutrition because that’s all they sell – the cheapest carbs and [...]
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Sourcing the best endurance supplements – how to spot good from badIn the world of sports nutrition there are a number of neat tricks employed by large companies with larger marketing budgets to persuade consumers - even educated ones - that their products may deliver more than they do. This makes sorting good from bad [...]
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