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If the pre-workout meal contains a fair amount of carbs, you can focus on during-workout nutrition -- glucose drink, amino acids -- in order to avoid having to use glucose as a carb source right before bed. If you travel home from the gym, you can have your shake at the gym and then a meal when...

And where does it go? Have you ever seen a 3-L bottle of soda? Unless you sleep in an oven, there's no way that you'll be able to give off that much fluid through sweat glands Urine output for healthy adults is generally in the 1-2L per day range. Gene

This largely depends on body water/electrolyte content, and osmoregulatory hormones that regulate renal water excretion. Way too many factors of renal physiology are involved to give you a good answer.

Aside from sweetness, mass-marketting to the non-athletic general public, low on the GI, and with low sugar concentration of the drinks (has to do with the fluid absorption efficiency) suggests that some fructose is needed to replenish some of liver glycogen because there is not enough glucose...

First of all, fructose is not insulogenic. A small fraction of glucose (20% if I remember correctly) replenishes liver glycogen as well, but I I said that fructose was 'superfluous' and deleterious in this regard because the stimulation of liver glycogen formation exerts a suppressive effect on...

Right, there is no reasoning because there are no good reasons.

Bad idea. Fructose post-workout is superfluous and deleterious.

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"This is exactly what our overfat population needs, in addition to all the sugar and other overprocessed carbs in our supermarkets. They make it sound like you either get fat eating refined carbs, or lose fat eating bacon. What a choice!" Egregiously funny, but true. The US government...

So what happened with he Dr. Atkins interview? Was he mainly refuting the opposition? Did he talk about anything other than his nutritional approach (his opinions on other subjects)?