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That does not seem like 'sponsored' article at all.
However, the researchers said that the experiment included a fairly small sample, and the long-term effects on workout recovery of eating fast food over other, healthier sources of food are not known.
It's just another garbage study with meaningless sample size, no control group, no exercise protocol etc.
What it shows is that as long as the adequate amounts of macro-nutrients are delivered within right time frame, one's body should be able to restore body energy levels. What it does not show, is how this type of 'diet' would influence healt in the long run.
It's all good to produce garbage like that as long as it stays on PubMed.
It's not ok though to take it out on the news paper front page , giving people a false sense of security/justification. Good job The Times, really....
Dorian.-
At the Mosquito trainer demo evening, there was a chap who spoke about his "Stealth" sports nutrition brand. He described the article. It seems like what was found was pretty much as you describe: if you choose fast food items that provide the same nutrition as you might find in a sports product, you get the same results.
I doubt this is garbage. Looking past the headlines it's not too hard to see that there's no real health comparison. There is though, I think, some dispelling of the idea that special products provide lots more than can be achieved through other means.
I found a quote apparently from one of the authors of the study:
"A lot of the articles out there are totally misrepresenting the study," he said. "We had participants eating small servings of the fast-food products, not giant orders of burgers and fries. Moderation is the key to the results we got."
'course, with the 4-up TTT in mind, I'd suggest that swift teams should go with pre-race giant orders of burgers and fries (kg rather than g).
Tim(TLB)
O ye, of little faith
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4400778.ece
(with some qualifications - as mentioned to us at the Mosquito trainer demo).