“SUPER FOOD!” or what used to be known as “food”.
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Skewing your macros away from fats in the context of post-workout recovery or pre-workout fueling is not fat-phobia and has nothing to do with getting or being skinny.
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Ill 2nd that. For me 0% plain yogurt is another good source of basically pure protein for me. I’m not vegan or vegetarian. The hardest macro I find to get is protein. I do long tempo rides, pounding the carbs. Healthy fats are so easy to get as their caloric value is ~2x. I need a good pure protein source to get my macros back in balance. Yogurt works really well for that for me.
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I’m not here to devalue the role of healthy fats, and there’s certainly an element of personal preference in this. However, in the context of eating for endurance sports it does make sense to prioritize protein and carb intake- particularly as our requirements for those are typically higher, as opposed to dietary fat requirements which remain relatively fixed and are typically pretty easy to meet.
(interesting that you should mention that, though- when I moved to Canada I was amazed by the vast array of different fat percentages available for dairy products. What’s the difference between 1 and 2% anyway?? 
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Agreed - I meant it more more in a very general sense but post-workout now lasts for much longer than the magic 45mins everyone would bang on about, at least according to Brad Schoenfeld., so, best chug on that yoghurt all day then 
I’m all for prioritising protein and carbs, I train a lot and hard and do this where possible, though for me eating whole foods trumps this aside from gunning it on the bike and then attempting to recover the trainwreck afterwards.
Greek yoghurt is one product that seems universally consistent in terms of what you are buying for the most part. Example - I can easily buy plain soya yoghurt here, no added sugar, just very plain, fat content is pretty much consistent across the brands. Then I go to US for business, and then it presents a challenge to get something without added sugar. 1% vs 2% though, that must be Brailsford’s marginal gain branded yoghurt
It’s different for women. Brad can get back to me when the cohorts in his meta-analysis aren’t over 90% male and the papers don’t include lines like
The study was open to both sexes, but because only 3 female participants completed the study, and because of the inherent difficulty in comparing macronutrient responses between sexes, results for the 3 female participants were removed for this report.
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Can say that about every study tbf.
i never have eaten Greek Yoghurt in my Live, i am a 50 ager, but today i bought one after i seen this thread
my super Food till today: Cottage Cheese with mashed bananas and cinnamon!
Yikes, that’s fun.
I’m inclined to agree with that based on my own experience. Eating immediately after a workout is usually the difference between me feeling like a bag of crap for the next 24 hours and going on with my day like a regular human being. Can’t back that one up with research though because there isn’t any 
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Right?! There is some, but male is default. What’s out there seems to suggest that the recovery window does exist and is pretty short for people in the luteal phase, so that’s I’m rolling with until we get better information.
Anecdotally, I feel like visible musculature sprouted into existence from the ether after I started actually eating 20-30g protein on purpose in the half hour after my workouts, but who the heck knows, maybe it was just the amount that made the difference and the timing was irrelevant.
I think it’s 1%
Joe
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Hey, i found out a fantastic combination with Greek Yogurt, i don’t know if this is international:
but if you mix 100gr greek yogurt with 1 piece of Ahoj-Brause it’s totally great:
Sometimes i eat 500gr greek and 5 pieces of them! 
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Keep in mind that full fat milk is about 3.5% so it’s not like the whole spectrum of milk fattiness spans a huge range.
But yeah in the US I always see 0%, 2%, and whole. But I will occasionally see 1% milk available.
If i have 0% greek yogurt, i add nuts, hemp/chia/flax seed and all that has fats in it.
If i have non 0… then i usually dont add nuts…
Surprised no one has mentioned it’s probiotic properties. Great for encouraging good gut health apparently.
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