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  • 31 Aug 2015 4:25 AM
    Message # 3502941
    Deleted user

    I had no response to the cycling without bonking topic so I'll try again.

    Dr Yudkin says no one ever needs to eat sugar.

    An article in a cycling magazine sympathetic to the sugar free lifestyle says.. "However, for cyclists taking part in endurance exercise, high sugar products have a time and a place, provided they are used widely." 

    Who is right?

  • 01 Sep 2015 9:01 PM
    Reply # 3506240 on 3502941
    Anonymous

    I'd  put my money on Dr Yudkin :-) I haven't seen the context but I  guess he was assuming that you can get all the energy you need from normal foodstuffs. And he was writing in the 1970s when high intensity exercise sport probably hadn't been thought of. If your hormone system is working properly, as it should be if you don't exceed your daily ration of fructose, then adding  glucose when you have a strong need for extra energy probably won't do you any harm. The pancreas will have no trouble coping with what you don't use by producing the appropriate amount of insulin. You can buy glucose tablets at the chemist.

    JohnN

  • 02 Sep 2015 4:03 AM
    Reply # 3506549 on 3502941
    Deleted user

    Cheers John. I have a charity ride on Sunday. Not competitive but still an effort. Glucose tablets don't weigh too much!

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