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"Restricting Carbs and its Impact on Physical Activity & Metabolism" with Prof Javier Gonzalez
We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast
The Importance of Energy Balance in Sport
The only way we can really store large amounts of energy long term is as fat. Excess energy will be stored as fat and if we have insufficient energy intake relative to our energy expenditure in the long term, we will ultimately lose fat. People were clearly burning more fat, but they were also eating more fat as well. So by restricting your sugar intake, it's not going to affect how much fat you're burning, at least in the short term. The difference we really saw with sugar restriction was decreasing lactate concentrations. This might be partly because of the misunderstanding of what sugars really are. And fructose actually doesn't produce a big blood sugar response. It's a low glycemic index
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