{"id":5605,"date":"2009-02-13T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:43:36","slug":"muscles-want-protein-not-carbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/muscles-want-protein-not-carbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscles Want Protein, Not Carbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/fitness\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2225\" title=\"exercise1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/exercise1.jpg\" alt=\"man jump rope\" width=\"184\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re an athlete who leans toward strenuous <a title=\"workouts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/fitness\/\" target=\"_self\">workouts<\/a>, whether you pound the pavement or fly down black diamond ski slopes, it is time to tweak your recovery, sports nutritionists say.<\/p>\n<p>The long-held belief from the late 1960s encouraging avid exercisers and elite athletes to rehydrate and to reload with carbohydrates is pass\u00e9. <a title=\"protein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/protein\/\" target=\"_self\">Protein<\/a> has muscled its way back into popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Studies show that <a title=\"carbs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-carbs\/\" target=\"_self\">carbohydrates<\/a> combined with a little protein creates a better muscle refueling and building response, and it reduces cortisol, a hormone that breaks down muscle, says Nancy Clark, an active member of the American Dietetic Association&#8217;s sports nutritionists and fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See this story at <a title=\"usa today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-02-11-protein-recovery_N.htm?csp=usat.me\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Matt&#8217;s <a title=\"post-workout snacks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/10-perfect-post-workout-snacks\/\" target=\"_self\">Top 10 Post-Workout Snacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an athlete who leans toward strenuous workouts, whether you pound the pavement or fly down black diamond ski slopes, it is time to tweak your recovery, sports nutritionists say. The long-held belief from the late 1960s encouraging avid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/muscles-want-protein-not-carbs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1166,162,269,895,268],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-carbohydrates","tag-protein","tag-snacks","tag-usa-today","tag-workout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}