Research
Energy balance
Strategies to maintain or enhance carbohydrate availability are critical to performance and are recommended in current sports nutrition guidelines.
Athletes should implement carbohydrate ingestion strategies to optimize performance.
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strategies to maintain or enhance carbohydrate availability, such as the ingestion of carbohydrate before, during and after exercise, are critical to the performance of a variety of sports events, and are a key recommendation in current sports nutrition guidelines.
Why this rating
The claim is based on established guidelines in sports nutrition.
Source
Carbohydrate and exercise
Louise M. Burke et al. · Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care · 1999
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