Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings. I'm here as always with E.C. Sinkowski.

Every week on the show, we simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello. How are you, E.C.? Wonderful. How are you doing? Wonderful. We're going to dive into your algorithm a little bit here, at least to a degree.

We're going to talk about some news articles that you've come across your desk. We're going to talk about the benefits of Rice Krispies. So there you go. I'm talking about walking after every single meal, whether we should, whether we need to. And then we're going to wrap it up with everybody's favorite conversation about potatoes. Yes. Talk about potatoes. Let's do

the first one first of the benefits of Rice Krispies for specifically for performance. So let's

talk to us about what this is all about. Yeah, this is a news article talking about endurance athletes

and this new trend or popularity of using Rice Krispy treats for their fueling.

And it was sent to me by actually a couple people. And it was right after we had done the episode

on CrossFitters diet and what the research says and how like probably using some more

carbohydrates would help performance. And so I think that kind of tipped off a couple of people.

They're like, check this out, Rice Krispies for performance. And so yeah, it's just kind of a

great example of how, you know, elite athletes, especially in high intensity scenarios, they're

using carbs. Rice Krispies are only carbs. They're not eating buttersticks. I mean, the article even talks about somebody eating like a whole pack of them, you know, to carb up before the day of the training. And what's also great about the rice Krispy treats, what I thought was so funny is that they're cheap. It's something like, you know, 30 cents each where all these expensive sport gel goos or two to five dollars each. And so

it's cheap. And then what's also really interesting about endurance events and certainly not something

that I've ever had to worry about is you really have to think about how you're going to handle the

digestion of all of this food, the logistical challenges of that across a multi-hour event.

And there's this guy, a physiologist out in Boulder, Colorado. He started Scratch Labs,

which is a supplement really for hydration for his endurance athletes. And he's helped people on the

tour and all of that stuff. And he's always been a big proponent, especially for the guys on the

tour, of doing as much whole food as possible. And he's always been a big proponent, especially for the guys on the tour,

of doing as much whole food as possible. And part of it is just the digestibility of it. And I even

remember watching Rich Froning did a 100-mile bike ride that's pretty famous a couple years. And I watched

whatever the documentary. And he was just having such a hard time stomacking enough food volume through the race. And so that's, I think something that's really interesting, especially for us mere mortals who are just doing these CrossFit events or less than an hour, is you don't really have to worry about, like, what is this going to look like for eight hours in a row trying to feed myself? And so, yeah, some of the athletes in this article just talk about how,

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