I’ve been reading on Art De Vany’s “Evolutionary Fitness” program and there are some points where he contradicts with the articles on T-Nation.
He considers this to be bad eating:
I used to eat 5-6 meals a day. Always a protein with a carb. Oatmeal and egg whites for breakfast. (Even though I�??ve never really been hungry in the morning.) The other meals would be chicken, tuna, salmon, steak, always with rice, baked potato, sweet potato or whole wheat bread, brown rice, plus spinach, asparagus, or broccoli.
I would drink a Gatorade when I worked out. And a protein shake after.
I didn�??t have much fruit. Too much sugar, I thought.
www.arthurdevany.com/2007/11/from_body_build_1.html
Aaaand, more:
I have no craving for junk foods, but in the attempt to add calories I knew I was not getting, I sometimes ate things, such as protein supplements, I usually would not. It didn’t work and I find that a bit less body weight is fine for me at this point in my life.
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I am not impressed with the research on protein replentishment. “Experts” tell us that we have a “window of opportunity” of perhaps two hours after a work out to load our muscles with protein and stimulate protein synthesis in the muscles.
Most of the studies making this point are based on muscle biopsies. There is too little precision in these measurements to point to any time period for optimal protein intake. There is no way to know when the muscle protein taken in the biopsy was laid down. This means that all this is speculation on the part of advocates of supplementation within the mythical “window”.
To top it off, proteins do not absorb as amino acids in the muscle until the protein breaks down. This takes about two hours for whey protein (but your own metabolism may vary), about five hours for soy and egg protein, and about seven hours for casein.
This means that anything other than free form amino acids will be taken up long after your work out is over. No rush to ingest and plenty of time to recharge later.
A bigger problem is that the muscle needs time to degrade the damaged fibers before it is ready to rebuild. It is likely that too early intake of amino acids interferes with the catabolic state that is essential to take out the damaged protein filaments before the rebuilding process begins. Satellite cells must migrate to the site of the damage and no rebuilding can commence until they relocate in the damaged fibers and the damaged fibers are degraded and removed.
So, what is the rush? Nature has its own timing and things must proceed in pace.