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Carbs are quite fine if you're an endurance athlete, much less so if you are sedentary. Take a look at what a pro cyclist consumes during a tour: thousands of c
by noarchy 16y ago
Carbs are quite fine if you're an endurance athlete, much less so if you are sedentary. Take a look at what a pro cyclist consumes during a tour: thousands of calories a day beyond what most people would consume, the majority of which are carbs. It works for them, because not only do they need the energy from it, but they are burning it. And these are not fat people (some of them are close to being underweight, by some people's standards). But if you're not active, eating a lot of carbs is like shoving extra gasoline into a car that never goes anywhere; useless, and counter-productive.
- pizza 16y agoI think the reason why carbs work well for endurance athletes is because it gets stored in the muscle glycogen and they actually use it. Yeah, otherwise it's useless.