Taking Sugar During Exercise Increases Power and Endurance
	In his July 26, 2009 Fitness and Health E-Zine,  Dr. Gabe Mirkin reported on a  study, which shows that taking
	sugar while you exercise increases the amount of training you can do, with more power and greater time to
	exhaustion.  Having more stored sugar in muscles during a workout helps you exercise longer.  The authors also
	showed that the enzymes used to convert sugar and fat to energy function well when sugar is taken continuously
	during exercise, and muscles trained on sugar had no loss in the amount of stored sugar or the ability to convert
	food to energy.
	(Journal of Applied Physiology, June 2009)
	Another study shows that taking a drink containing both protein and sugar during exercise or competition was
	more effective than a drink containing just sugar.
	(Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, April 2009);
	and another study shows that a protein-sugar drink taken immediately after intense exercise also hastens healing
	of the muscles damaged by hard exercise.
	(Journal of Applied Physiology, April 2009).
	Many studies show that eating before you exercise lowers high blood sugar levels far more effectively than eating
	after you exercise.  During exertion, muscles remove sugar rapidly from the bloodstream, and blood sugar usually
	does not rise too high during exercise and for up to half an hour after you finish exercising.  On the other hand,
	taking refined carbohydrates (sugar or flour) when you are not exercising can cause a high rise in blood sugar
	that increases risk for diabetes and heart attacks, strokes, and nerve damage leading to dementia, blindness and
	deafness, even in people who are not diagnosed as being diabetic.  Exercising after fasting barely lowers high
	blood sugar levels at all.
	(Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, July 2009).
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