New Study on "Carbohydrate Ingestion on Exercise Metabolism and Physical Performance"

What’s coh?

They got about 25% of calories from fat

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas-Terrados/publication/51304223_Macronutrients_Intake_of_Top_Level_Cyclists_During_Continuous_Competition_-_Change_in_the_Feeding_Pattern/links/00b49529352980077c000000/Macronutrients-Intake-of-Top-Level-Cyclists-During-Continuous-Competition-Change-in-the-Feeding-Pattern.pdf

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But that’s from their diet throughout the day. I mean what were they doing while they were riding besides the 25 g/h of carbs? Or was that it?

FYI - this isn’t a “study.” It’s a narrative review of existing studies.

Narrative here means it did not review all the scientific evidence on the topic, only the ones the authors chose to talk about/show you. This differs from a systematic review where you get a complete snapshot of the total state of scientific literature - as opposed to only an author-filtered version of it.

The quality of a narrative review boils down to whether you trust the author to be honest and not biased.

I will point out that the lead author of this study is someone who refers to high carbohydrate diets as a “genocide,” and makes a living off promoting alternative diets. And also advocates for treating COVID with hydroxychloroquine. And that vaccines cause autism.

I would personally treat this publication as non-scientific as a result.

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Oh yikes! I didn’t have much time to actually read it in depth but won’t bother now. Yeah, definitely a tiny bit of bias going on there. Thanks for pointing it out.

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During racing they also had 25% calories from fats and 67% from carbs. That was the average. There was a wide range as you can see in the table

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