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Old Wed, Jun-27-18, 11:43
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Plan: mostly milkfat
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There's an old one looking at respiratory quotient. Sort of a measure of oxygen consumption vs. energy production, a higher quotient means a higher carbohydrate metabolism, a lower quotient a higher fat metabolism. People with higher respiratory quotients than the "food quotient" they eat, that is what their respiratory quotient would be if they just burned what they ate and were in maintenance, will accumulate fat.

This can be put in terms of low carb --of course if you eat low carb high fat, you're forced to a lower respiratory quotient, more likely to match RQ to FQ. During the low fat heyday, lipophobic researchers looked at the mismatch as an inability to match RQ to FQ, or an inability to increase oxidation fat in response to an increase in dietary fat. There's some truth in this--increase carbohydrate in the diet, and carbohydrate oxidation will go up, because there's a limited capacity for carb storage. The same won't happen with fat unless you take something else (guess what?) out of the diet at the same time. It all comes down to "fat burns in the absence of carbohydrate."

Have we listed "Fat burns in the flame of carbohydrate" as a cause of obesity (when carbs are lacking) yet?
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