All carbohydrates are predominately fuel. They're used short-
term, like gas in the tank. So the types and amount of
carbohydrates to provide the right fuel mix -- plus the timing
of their intake to provide an optimum supply -- are critical for
any particular performance to succeed. For peak performance and
optimal health, you must stabilize your blood sugar for the
entire day. In order to accomplish this, slow burning complex
carbohydrates (like brown rice and sweet potatoes) should be
combined with a lean protein source (like fish and chicken). A
major point of eating in this manner is to stimulate or repress
the production of specific hormones that make up the metabolism.
In the text books, carbohydrates are divided into two types --
simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are sugars found in
fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, the lactose in milk and the
sucrose from beet and cane sugar. But I like to think of
carbohydrates as being divided into starchy and fibrous. Starchy
carbs being grains, legumes, p