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<blockquote data-quote="fergus" data-source="post: 7222" data-attributes="member: 6150"><p>Er, what Dennis said.</p><p></p><p>Like you, Dennis, I'd read this before and it struck me as pretty ignorant</p><p></p><p>Also, you need to consider something known as 'fuel partitioning'. In essence, the body has 4 sources of fuel for all cellular processes - diet, glycogen, fat and protein stores. It will use them in that order to fuel all necessary metabolic processes.</p><p></p><p>However, in the presence of dietary carbohydrate, serum insulin levels increase and effectively 'turn off' the production of the hormones necessary to burn fat. In this way, high carb diets disable the bodys ability to metabolise its own fat stores. So even when hungry, i.e. when the bodys cells are short of fuel, it can only get this fuel by eating more carbs - the fat stores remain virtually untroubled. When on a low carbohydrate diet, the body switches into production of glucagon which, should the diet be short of the fuel necessary, it can very easily access stored fat to cover the shortfall. This is one reason low carb diets tend to be much more effective in weight loss, and why people on these diets usually describe having more energy rather than less.</p><p></p><p>All the best,</p><p></p><p>fergus</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fergus, post: 7222, member: 6150"] Er, what Dennis said. Like you, Dennis, I'd read this before and it struck me as pretty ignorant Also, you need to consider something known as 'fuel partitioning'. In essence, the body has 4 sources of fuel for all cellular processes - diet, glycogen, fat and protein stores. It will use them in that order to fuel all necessary metabolic processes. However, in the presence of dietary carbohydrate, serum insulin levels increase and effectively 'turn off' the production of the hormones necessary to burn fat. In this way, high carb diets disable the bodys ability to metabolise its own fat stores. So even when hungry, i.e. when the bodys cells are short of fuel, it can only get this fuel by eating more carbs - the fat stores remain virtually untroubled. When on a low carbohydrate diet, the body switches into production of glucagon which, should the diet be short of the fuel necessary, it can very easily access stored fat to cover the shortfall. This is one reason low carb diets tend to be much more effective in weight loss, and why people on these diets usually describe having more energy rather than less. All the best, fergus [/QUOTE]
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