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Originally posted by ibis
I'm no nutrition expert, but that doesn't make sense. If your body needs carbs, why's it breaking down your muscles for protien?
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Your body is a boichemical factory. It can get energy from almost anything you eat. It reacts to them differently. If it needs energy badly, it will grab whatever is availiable.
Carbs are easy to turn into energy, and have no other use to the body, so it grabs those first.
(I am not a nutritionist, but my mother teaches this stuff. I am not quoting anything, just explaining how I understood it.)