Old thread warning. This is a year old thread.

yeah, for me that would make my whole day about "food" and occupy every waking moment. Clearly a GREAT way to lose weight!

I wonder what the results of the follow on study showed.

9 meals a day?

F-k that!

Haha - an objective was to clear fatty acids quickly. Of course if you follow a low carb high fat regimen you will clear them much faster because you will be burning them as your main fuel. And 2-3 meals per day will be quite enough.

Humans can't store glucose in large quantities - a few hundred calories - hence the reason to eat frequently - every 2-3 hours. And with that the energy levels have a waveform like action - spikes and then troughs.

When fat is the primary fuel the adipose tissues play a very dynamic and active role much like the buffering system when streaming videos. The incoming dietary fat, can be infrequent and irregular - entering at one side, but meanwhile fats are released from fat cells at a very steady and even rate. And the amount of energy stored in adipose tissue is orders of magnitude higher than that for glucose. This should be the normal steady state mechanism of energy flow for us. And this works very well if insulin is kept low since insulin turns off fat burning.

The value of having some glucose in reserve is that it can act like a short duration turbo boost when you need to escape that sabre tooth tiger, or need to fight that grizzly bear. Or in our case - sprint for the bus you might miss otherwise.

Glucose is not our primary fuel, but our emergency short term reserve. Fat provides a steady state energy flow ideal for long duration survival where food need only be consumed infrequently, and perhaps with days in between. This reflects our long term evolutionary past.

All the time researchers ASSUME that glucose must be our primary fuel then they will continue to tie themselves in knots and come up with bizarre eating patterns to solve nonsense problems of their own making.