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Old Sat, Apr-24-10, 00:42
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Well, I would like an explanation for why my fat is not providing me wonders of energy rather than storing (or at least in the past or if I eat higher carb).

One possible explanation is that we are leptin resistant (in addition to being insulin resistant ). Leptin is a hormone released by fat cells. The more fat they store, the more leptin they release. High leptin makes healthy people stop eating and lose weight; it indicates energy storage is full. But high leptin doesn't have an effect on leptin resistant people. Leptin resistance causes low energy and increased appetite, as if you were starving, while in reality your cells are drowning in fuel.
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What if some of the problem is not what we ARE eating, but what we are NOT eating? If amino acids are deficient, what are the effects?






Earlier this year I came across something interesting online, can't recall where it was located. Either a doctor or a nutritionist or some similar 'expert' was explaining that dieting very RARELY makes anybody ill, and that during weight loss, the cells release their protein and that's why it's safe to diet.... but, that afterwards, when one is no longer losing weight, that one's protein needs are substantially increased, because one is no longer burning one's own stored protein.
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Old Wed, Sep-22-10, 09:28
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Fructose sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...s-fsm062010.php


Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present as children's fat cells mature, it makes more of these cells mature into fat cells in belly fat and less able to respond to insulin in both belly fat and fat located below the skin.

The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego by lead author Georgina Coade, a PhD student at the University of Bristol in the U.K.

"Our results suggest that high levels of fructose, which may result from eating a diet high in fructose, throughout childhood may lead to an increase in visceral [abdominal] obesity, which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk," Coade said......
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