My aching legs...

[magnatom]

Wrong again, the carbs in a Mars are no better or worse than any other. As a so-called scientist you should know that glucose is the same however it is delivered!

Who is taking about glucose. Do you not realise that there are more complex carbohydrates that are much less harmful to ones body? Fruit sugars for instance? (This is not my field I should add!)

Anyway mars bars also contain other things apart from glucose, them be fats in there as well I believe....

 

[domtyler]

You are right. No real harm except to your wallet! (Actually I have vague recollections of a condition where excess protein can be a problem...)

You will not bulk up just by eating protein. Honest you won't! Can I hazard a guess that you were doing some form of exercise at the time that might have accounted for your bulking up?

Actually protein is converted to fat if not needed so you will bulk up, just not in the desired way. As I mentioned in my first post I was doing lots of training at the time, I believe that if I had not supplemented then I would have had a deficiency, even as someone who has plenty of meat in my normal diet.

 

[domtyler]

Who is taking about glucose. Do you not realise that there are more complex carbohydrates that are much less harmful to ones body? Fruit sugars for instance? (This is not my field I should add!)

Anyway mars bars also contain other things apart from glucose, them be fats in there as well I believe....

When you are engaging in hard exercise simple carbs are fine to eat.

 

[magnatom]

Actually protein is converted to fat if not needed so you will bulk up, just not in the desired way. As I mentioned in my first post I was doing lots of training at the time, I believe that if I had not supplemented then I would have had a deficiency, even as someone who has plenty of meat in my normal diet.

I was assuming when you said bulk up that you meant muscle!

I think we will need to agree to disagree on this one. I can't remember, is this the first time we have disagreed.....?

 

[magnatom]

When you are engaging in hard exercise simple carbs are fine to eat.

Is a mars bar just a simple carb?

 

[tdr1nka]

I'm still thinking, 'Stop Your Snakes From Sqeaking With Snake Oil!'

T x

 

[domtyler]

Is a mars bar just a simple carb?

Ingredients:

*Milk chocolate
*Glucose syrup
*Sugar
*Hydrogenated vegetable fat
*Skimmed milk powder
*Fat reduced cocoa
*Lactose
*Milk fat
*Malt extract
*Salt
*Whey powder
*Egg white
*Milk protein
*Flavouring

Nutritional Information:
(per 100 grammes)

449 CALS
4.2g PROTEIN
69g CARBO
17.4g FAT

That makes it almost seventy percent sugars/carbs, only seventeen percent fat. If you were about to go for a twenty mile cycle ride or a five mile run it would certainly not do you much harm.

 

[magnatom]

Come on Dom, you haven't answered my last question? You must answer it!!

Oh no, my posting is becoming cab'esc!

 

[magnatom]

Oops we replied at the same time!

Did you go and buy a mars bar especially just to answer my question?

You will have to eat it now!

Maniac.......

 

[tdr1nka]

Quetsion? The Mars Bar question?

I like bananas and full fat milk.
When I've been doing regular runs or commutes I get manic salt cravings and tend to eat accordingly, the more cycling, the more food.

Sorry if I'm not making sense, I'm a little 'Cab-addled' dontcha know.

T x

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Mars bars are shite.

 

[John the Monkey]

Blimey. I'm struggling going from 17 miles a day to 26, myself.

IR a lightweight.

 

[Terminator]

Mars bars are shite.

Very rare that I eat mars bars.They taste like they are full of sugar.

Probably a rare time I will use them is in an emergency when I hit the "knock".

 

[HJ]

Ingredients:

*Milk chocolate
*Glucose syrup
*Sugar
*Hydrogenated vegetable fat
*Skimmed milk powder
*Fat reduced cocoa
*Lactose
*Milk fat
*Malt extract
*Salt
*Whey powder
*Egg white
*Milk protein
*Flavouring

Nutritional Information:
(per 100 grammes)

449 CALS
4.2g PROTEIN
69g CARBO
17.4g FAT

That makes it almost seventy percent sugars/carbs, only seventeen percent fat. If you were about to go for a twenty mile cycle ride or a five mile run it would certainly not do you much harm.

The Hydrogenated vegetable fat is actually very bad for you and should be avoided.

 

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

Panda Licorice bars - NOTHING beats 'em