If you haven’t been bombarded with advertising for low carbohydrate foods, diets, plans and crazed anti-carbohydrate friends and coworkers in the past few years, you must be living on a remote island somewhere (taking any visitors?). The anti-carbohydrate, pro-fat crowd (including keto, Paleo, and Whole 30 – aka Paleo reinvented) devotees might be onto something. But …
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Should endurance athletes trade in their high carbohydrate gels, gummies, and pasta for fatty steak and butter? A recent study found elite ultra-marathoners and iron distance triathletes on a low carbohydrate diet burned significantly more fat while running than their counterparts on a typical higher carbohydrate diet. There was no difference in the level of glycogen depletion …
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When I was in college I would often eat 3-4 bagels per day (free from the cafeteria and portable), along with cream of wheat in the morning, fruit and/or starchy veggies at lunch, heaping quantities of brown rice at dinner, and a bowl (or two) of Raisin Bran with milk after dinner. I wasn’t on an …