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[RC] Humans and fiber - k s swigartBruce Weary said: Marathon runners consume carbs for energy with a little protein to prevent catabolism, not fiber or fat. Since humans don't have much by way of ability to deconstruct the structural carbohydrates that are synonymous with fiber while horses do, saying that human athletes don't eat fiber for an energy source is hardly relevent. The human digestive system doesn't really have the ability to break the structural bonds of structural carbohydrates. The horse's does. Your horse will get a lot more energy from eating beet pulp than you will. Although it won't be quick energy. There is no way for a horse to eat enough during the course of an endurance ride to provide it with enough energy to fuel the effort of the entire ride, even if you were to feed it straight glucose. Endurance horses fuel their efforts with what they ate the day or so before. What they eat during the course of the ride does not provide them with the energy they need for the ride. What they eat duirng the course of the ride provides them with the ability to keep the GI tract functioning and keep the metabolic pathways open. Some fiber keeps the GI tract functioning, and some form of sugar (of which starch is one but so is molasses) to keep the metabolic pathways open. Oh yeah, and water. How much molasses and/or other starches and sugars there is in beet pulp varies dramatically. Some batches of beet pulp are loaded with sugars (it is, after all SUGAR beet pulp, so it depends on how much of the sugar was taken out during the processing). kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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