Re: Pre and post workout nutrition?

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For scientists to work with industry to create or improve products is

more or less how commercial innovation works, so it's no surprise

that this interchange exists in sports nutrition. It extends to

sponsorship of sports organisations as well of course -- a great

testing ground for new product ideas.

Where it gets murky, in my view, is when an individual scientist has

a core financial interest in a product and also publishes in the

scientific literature about that product, or at least a

representation of it.

Not necessarily unethical, just murky.

Gympie, Australia

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> >>> Carruthers, one thing to note about the study by

> Cribb.... He is a consultant for a certain company that supplies

> the 'PRO+CHO' supplements that are used in these studies. This study

> is very similar to " Cribb, P., , A., Carey, M. and , A.

> (2006). The Effect of Whey Isolate and Resistance Training Whey

> Isolate and showed gains of 5kg of muscle in previously trained

> individuals in 10 weeks... pretty astounding results...>>>

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> Hi good point, most nutritional experts including many of

those cited in the articles from NYtimes work in tandem within areas

of research and consultancy. Ivy (Accelerade), Berardi (Surge),

Cribb (AST), Loon / Burke (Endurox), Jeukendrup (Powerbar),

Tarnopolsky (Gatorade). Furthermore, a great deal of research on

supplements is financed by the supplement companies themselves.

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> Carruthers

> Wakefield, UK

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