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John Cogburn wrote:
>I'm reading a book called "The Circadian Prescription" by Sidney Baker. In
>it, he mentions hunter-gtherers a number of times and comes up with soem
>prescriptions. The most interesting one to me is this: eat protein and
>fat during the day, and save the carbs for night. This is against the
>advice you normally see in magazines, where they say eating carbs at night
>will end up as fat. Baker claims that the body actually needs carbs during
>sleep for repair and rejuvenation.
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>Anyways, I'm trying this for a week. Any other thoughts on this?
Whether the body needs carbs or not, I can't speak to. But my
body certainly *hungers* for carbs after dark, whereas I can eat
protein all day without any carb cravings. However, I am
terribly overweight, so carbs at any time of day aren't good for
me!
.:. Craig
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