• xohshoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Whoa settle down there

    Sucrose is 1:1 glucose/ fructose which is near the optimal 0.8 ratio for fueling endurance activities

    I rode 100 miles solo in less than 5 hours Sunday on 360g sucrose in 4 750ml bottles

    It’sa lot cheaper than all that fancy SIS/skratch etc

    Carbs aren’t poison if you move your body

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I consume near 400g carbs every day and am fine as a competitive powerlifter who also runs (which is rare lol). You just can’t be sitting on your ass all day.

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        1 year ago

        The issue is how much hidden sugar there is, especially in the US. Just look at how many things include stuff like corn syrup when it isn’t all that necessary.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, but so few people are high energy athletes who can legitimately burn the sugar right away.

      My comment was really about the great majority of people for whom sugar consumption is a path to metabolic disease, diabetes, and early death

      I still support a tax on sugar as it would reduce consumption overall, but for those wealthy enough to exercise hard a sugar tax would hardly hurt

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          It’s probably a U shaped curve where you can devote (or have to devote) significant time to exercise at very low incomes, but it becomes harder at working poor sort of levels, then easy again at a certain level above poverty