Re: FW: Carbos -- a different view

["Steph Teeter" <step@fsr.com>]

...hey guys, maybe we could lighten up a little? At least
in public? This is basically good stuff, but the 'please remove
me from Ridecamp' meter is starting to rise.... I think we should
seriously consider Mike's Lutefisk study.

Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: Tivers@aol.com <Tivers@aol.com>
To: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Carbos -- a different view


>In a message dated 98-06-25 21:45:34 EDT, CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com writes:
>
><<  I am not saying that the carbs are a bad thing. >
>
>Hell, you've had a cerebral mishap ever since the word was mentioned.
>
>> My points here are that 1)
>  they need to be used only by people who really KNOW what they are doing
and
> on
>  horses that truly show a need for them. >
>
>And that person, who REALLY KNOWS what she is doing, is you?
>
>
>> 2) They need to be used with
>  considerable caution.
>
>Plain hysteria. You refuse to even contemplate the protocol and exaggerate
it
>to attempt to make limp points.
>
>>3) At no time should they ever be considered to be a
>  substitute for the rest of a balanced feeding program,>
>
>Blatently obvious to a neophyte. Are you talking down to us, Heidi?
>
>> which INCLUDES
>  understanding how roughages work in the aerobic athlete.>
>
>Your specialty--probably worked weeks on your thesis. Sorry, but there's a
>hell of a lot more to exercise energy supply than roughage and FFAs.
>
>>This is where Tom
>  really misses the boat--I'm sure a lot of his research on carbs is valid,
>but
>  he is starting with a basic lack of understanding of how the digestive
tract
>  of the horse functions, and how it varies for adaptation to different
kinds
> of
>  work.  Until he looks at the whole picture, he is a loose cannon with his
> carb
>  info.>
>
>Sez you. You've appointed yourself the defender of your tiny bit of
>specialized semi-knowledge, extrapolated far beyond any meaning whatsoever,
>and you want me to bow down to it as the Word of God? Get real and read the
>latest batch of studies I posted--I think the "roughage revolution" is all
in
>your mind.
>
>  Heidi >>
>
>ti
>