Sports Medicine Journal critical of sugar in sports products

One of the most popular stories on the BBC News website today was one titled 'Exercise not key to obesity fight'. While the article might give the impression that it was about physical exercise not being of any benefit, the story is really about an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine criticising the food industry.


What they are particularly critical of is the over-consumption of sugar and how prevalent it is in processed foods.

They even likened their tactics as "chillingly similar" to those of Big Tobacco on smoking and said celebratory endorsements of sugary drinks and the association of junk food and sport must end.

If you read through the BBC article and the associated editorial on the British Journal of Sports Medicine website then there is a very clear message.... Just because you exercise, it doesn't give you an excuse to completely ignore what you eat.

On the subject of carbo-loading, they say..."there are growing concerns that insulin-resistant athletes may be at risk of developing type 2 diabetes if they continue to eat very high-carbohydrate diets for decades since such diets worsen insulin resistance."

 Bottom line...watch your sugar intake regardless of how much you run.