How sugar and processed foods effect your health.
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"I'd be curious to know how many grams of carbs you can tolerate per hour on 4+ hour rides this way."---ZHVelo.
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Are simple or complex carbs better for cycling?
The intensity of your workout affects digestion and absorption. On high-intensity rides stick to carbs that are simple and easy to absorb. Low-intensity rides offer more opportunities for solids and complex carbs. You can prevent palate fatigue on a long ride with a variety of solid foods.
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Are simple or complex carbs better for cycling?
The intensity of your workout affects digestion and absorption. On high-intensity rides stick to carbs that are simple and easy to absorb. Low-intensity rides offer more opportunities for solids and complex carbs. You can prevent palate fatigue on a long ride with a variety of solid foods.
And anyway, you were bringing up pros and their carb intake. They are not going at low intensities. They are not doing 120g/hour of complex carbs. So I really don't see what your point is bringing up the fact that on easy rides one can and maybe should eat healthy carbs.
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I physically can't eat complex carbs when riding hard. Toward the end of a tough 5 hour event ride I'm reduced to consuming liquid and gels only. I might start such a ride with a couple of solid energy bars, but I find even those hard work by mid-ride.
Riding at lower intensity I can eat anything, but generally don't need to. If it's a long, easy ride I might eat 1 or 2 energy bars or a few rice cakes at most. Never anything too complicated or full of fibre. On and off bike fuelling are totally different worlds for me. The pros take that a step further by ramping up their simple carb intake on the bike to 100g+ per hour in a race.
Riding at lower intensity I can eat anything, but generally don't need to. If it's a long, easy ride I might eat 1 or 2 energy bars or a few rice cakes at most. Never anything too complicated or full of fibre. On and off bike fuelling are totally different worlds for me. The pros take that a step further by ramping up their simple carb intake on the bike to 100g+ per hour in a race.
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Riding 4-5 hours aggressively requires me to consume only a limited amount of carbohydrates, usually a fruit or two at the midpoint, but keeping well-hydrated goes on throughout the ride. On many occasions, I have bicycled 4 hours without consuming food.
Normally, on days when I go for 4-5 hr bicycling, I have a good meal about 2 hrs before I start. When bicycling in summer, water is replaced with electrolytes containing about 4-5% sugar (home-made).
Nutrition isn’t junk science, if you know what you are doing. There are too many con-artists who are selling junk in the name scientifically proven good nutrition to ill-informed masses.
Normally, on days when I go for 4-5 hr bicycling, I have a good meal about 2 hrs before I start. When bicycling in summer, water is replaced with electrolytes containing about 4-5% sugar (home-made).
Nutrition isn’t junk science, if you know what you are doing. There are too many con-artists who are selling junk in the name scientifically proven good nutrition to ill-informed masses.
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1) He's telling a story and much of the language he uses is oriented around persuasion/emotion rather than direct and clear factual information. Not enough science. Too much persuasion.
2) Avoided a direct question from the host about the degree of a the problem where fructose inhibits a particular process. He went way 'round the barn to build a reframe and eventually never actually answered the question.
So my take is that this guy is pushing an agenda and I'm not motivated to wade through his narrative for the good stuff and separate the B.S. I do think there's truth at the core of his agenda. Namely that excess fructose consumption is worse than many people realize because it must be processed in the liver and tends to trigger other metabolic responses. But I want the straight scoop. I want both sides. I want a clear description of realistic hazards, etc. And I wondered how long would it be before he mentions that your body will actually produce fructose - given that he repeatedly referenced fructose as a poison?
As a bit of an aside, studies show that carb replacement drinks are most effective when glucose and fructose are supplied in about a 2:1 proportion. The hypothesis is that this happens because we process glucose and fructose using two separate pathways. We can saturate the glucose or fructose pathways if we consume just one of the sugars. But consume both, using two pathways, and your overall capacity to process sugar is increased. That's why you'll see dextrose (glucose) as an ingredient in addition to sugar (sucrose = 50% glucose 50% fructose). The added dextrose shifts the ratio closer to something optimal. This has performance implications, not necessarily health ones.
Richard Johnson seems more science and less agenda driven to me. I'd recommend these two podcasts where he discusses these issues. In particular he summarizes his understanding of the role of fructose in the first portion of the first video. The second video is more comprehensive on sugar metabolism.
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Riding 4-5 hours aggressively requires me to consume only a limited amount of carbohydrates, usually a fruit or two at the midpoint, but keeping well-hydrated goes on throughout the ride. On many occasions, I have bicycled 4 hours without consuming food.
Normally, on days when I go for 4-5 hr bicycling, I have a good meal about 2 hrs before I start. When bicycling in summer, water is replaced with electrolytes containing about 4-5% sugar (home-made).
Nutrition isn’t junk science, if you know what you are doing. There are too many con-artists who are selling junk in the name scientifically proven good nutrition to ill-informed masses.
Normally, on days when I go for 4-5 hr bicycling, I have a good meal about 2 hrs before I start. When bicycling in summer, water is replaced with electrolytes containing about 4-5% sugar (home-made).
Nutrition isn’t junk science, if you know what you are doing. There are too many con-artists who are selling junk in the name scientifically proven good nutrition to ill-informed masses.
And personally, I don't think nutrition for health is all that complicated either - if you maintain a very active lifestyle and maintain your energy balance. If you do that, most people will have a lot of flexibility regarding the particulars of what they eat.
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Understanding how to fuel yourself while riding isn't complicated at all really. At least not for the kind of single day rides most of us take. Maybe it gets complicated if you are doing RAAM or something similar.
And personally, I don't think nutrition for health is all that complicated either - if you maintain a very active lifestyle and maintain your energy balance. If you do that, most people will have a lot of flexibility regarding the particulars of what they eat.
And personally, I don't think nutrition for health is all that complicated either - if you maintain a very active lifestyle and maintain your energy balance. If you do that, most people will have a lot of flexibility regarding the particulars of what they eat.
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What exactly are you disagreeing with? I don't see how your comment about processed foods is relevant to what I said.
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Not all processed foods are bad and unhealthy, it's the fake foods that are unhealthy.
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Yes, a primary issue with processed foods like….canned soup, flavored box rice, processed meat, is the enormous amount of sodium added.
The excess sodium is bad enough, and while it may not cause issues in and of itself for some, it’s the affect it has on the “preferred taste” of many
Food without a great deal of salt becomes less palatable and it creates a diet of unhealthy eating on the whole
Same with excess refined sugar
With just a little effort, one can modify their taste so that they find whole food without much salt added very satisfying
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Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds owned several large food companies, including giants like Nabisco and Kraft-General Foods. A study compared these tobacco-owned company "foods" to foods from non-tobacco-owned companies, and discovered:
"[T]obacco-owned foods were 80 percent more likely to contain potent combinations of refined carbs and sodium (salt) that made them hyper-palatable. Tobacco-owned brands were also 29 percent more likely to contain similarly potent combinations of fat and sodium."
Addiction is profitable -- and unhealthy.
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Moderation note. I would suggest that everyone read the caption under training and nutrition. The main theme of this website is cycling. What does one intake while on the bike? What does one eat in preparation for riding. What food works while riding and what does not. What diets and nutrition couple with cycling result in sustainable weight loss.
If one wants to talk about food absent of cycling content, the governments oversight role, the food chain and etc and then grind a political ax...take it to P&R. As soon as we see words like unhealthy, poison and etc puts posts on our radar.
Let's keep this forum P&R free and helpful for those looking for training and nutrition ideas that support cycling goals.
If one wants to talk about food absent of cycling content, the governments oversight role, the food chain and etc and then grind a political ax...take it to P&R. As soon as we see words like unhealthy, poison and etc puts posts on our radar.
Let's keep this forum P&R free and helpful for those looking for training and nutrition ideas that support cycling goals.
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Interesting new study on UPF and heart disease. Conclusion is that not all UPF are equally bad - sweetened drinks and cured or processed meats have the greatest deleterious effect, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts, etc., though technically UPF, do not have a measurable effect in this study.
Sorry, NYT story is behind a paywall. Maybe the same story is covered well in some other open-linked source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/w...thy-study.html
Sorry, NYT story is behind a paywall. Maybe the same story is covered well in some other open-linked source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/w...thy-study.html
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Interesting new study on UPF and heart disease. Conclusion is that not all UPF are equally bad - sweetened drinks and cured or processed meats have the greatest deleterious effect, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts, etc., though technically UPF, do not have a measurable effect in this study.
Sorry, NYT story is behind a paywall. Maybe the same story is covered well in some other open-linked source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/w...thy-study.html
Sorry, NYT story is behind a paywall. Maybe the same story is covered well in some other open-linked source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/w...thy-study.html
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"if you maintain a very active lifestyle and maintain your energy balance. If you do that, most people will have a lot of flexibility regarding the particulars of what they eat."
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Moderation note. I would suggest that everyone read the caption under training and nutrition. The main theme of this website is cycling. What does one intake while on the bike? What does one eat in preparation for riding. What food works while riding and what does not. What diets and nutrition couple with cycling result in sustainable weight loss.
If one wants to talk about food absent of cycling content, the governments oversight role, the food chain and etc and then grind a political ax...take it to P&R. As soon as we see words like unhealthy, poison and etc puts posts on our radar.
Let's keep this forum P&R free and helpful for those looking for training and nutrition ideas that support cycling goals.
If one wants to talk about food absent of cycling content, the governments oversight role, the food chain and etc and then grind a political ax...take it to P&R. As soon as we see words like unhealthy, poison and etc puts posts on our radar.
Let's keep this forum P&R free and helpful for those looking for training and nutrition ideas that support cycling goals.
The thing is, the very terms "science" and "nutrition" are in themselves "religions". If anyone doubt this, just look how polarizing and dividing they are. They separate and divide to begin with, assuming that is how Existence Exists(divided, dual-istic).
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While that is completely reasonable the video itself is not related to cycling specific to begin with, so in that puts the reader in a conundrum.
The thing is, the very terms "science" and "nutrition" are in themselves "religions". If anyone doubt this, just look how polarizing and dividing they are. They separate and divide to begin with, assuming that is how Existence Exists(divided, dual-istic).
The thing is, the very terms "science" and "nutrition" are in themselves "religions". If anyone doubt this, just look how polarizing and dividing they are. They separate and divide to begin with, assuming that is how Existence Exists(divided, dual-istic).
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Seems to me you saw Hermes moderation note....and then did the opposite.
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