Stupid Questions May 2015

Gondolinian

This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in their knowledge, though the fewer and the smaller we can make them, the better.

Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.

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Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.

To any future monthly posters of SQ threads, please remember to add the "stupid_questions" tag.

I personally use maltrodextrin when I want to add calories to a drink.

Flavorless (kind of, makes tap water "taste more like tap water" to me), but it has an insane glycemic index (higher than pure sugar, by some molecular miracle I've never investigated), which makes it great for replenishing energy while working out and terrible otherwise.

(Actually, on that note, I improved my jogging performance by 20-40% by adding 75 calories of maltodextrin immediately before starting, and completely eliminated the "I'm dead now" period afterwards with another 25 calories; I had a tub of the stuff left over from weightlifting, which since I've moved and haven't joined a new gym I'm not doing anymore.)