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Nutrition for High Performance: Carbohydrates are Good!
2 March 2009 5:39 am
Editors Note: This is a guest post from Olympic Athlete Michael Blackburn, BAppSci (Hons), PhD (Sports Science).
I’m writing this because too many times I’ve heard from athletes that ’sugar is bad’ or ’sugar makes me fat’. So I wanted to talk about some facts regarding the benefits of carbohydrates/sugars in an athlete’s diet.
With so many messages about diets in the general media it’s important for athletes to remember that they need an eating plan that provides high quality energy for training and competition, rather than follow diet fads of the general population.
Firstly, some important background.
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Tagged As: athletes, carbohydrates, diet, exercise, performance