Whether you eat carbs, protein, or nothing before a bike ride, you don’t feel hungrier during or after the ride — your appetite stays about the same.

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Pre-Exercise Carbohydrate or Protein Ingestion Influences Substrate Oxidation but Not Performance or Hunger Compared with Cycling in the Fasted State

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2021 Apr 14

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Pre-Exercise Carbohydrate or Protein Ingestion Influences Substrate Oxidation but Not Performance or Hunger Compared with Cycling in the Fasted State

Score: 49

DOI: 10.3390/nu13041291

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