Sun, Sep-14-08, 06:32
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OutdoorGuy
I also read/heard somewhere that protein requires more water than carbs for digestion.
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I don't know where you read this but I disagree with that. Protein doesn't need extra water to be metabolized. At least not like glucose needs it to be stored as glycogen. Glycogen needs about 4 times its weight in water for storage. The point is that carbs requires water for storage while protein doesn't. Incidentally, during the first week of induction for the Atkins diet, we lose this water weight as we deplete the glycogen stored in our body. This amounts to between 5 and 7lbs.
Carbohydrates drive insulin drives fat accumulation.
Insulin is a storage hormone. As we eat carbs, we release insulin in the bloodstream to cover the rise in blood sugar. At least that's the conventional idea behind insulin. The fact is insulin's primary role is to store nutrients by taking them from the bloodstream and pushing them into fat cells and any other cell that can take them. As it does this, it literally empties the blood of nutrients doing two things: It makes us hungry, it makes us less active.
It makes us hungry because cells don't have the nutrients they need from the blood so they send the hunger signal until we eat some more and fill the blood with more nutrients. It makes us less active for the same reason and until we eat more and fill the blood with more nutrients, cells will slow down their rate of fuel utilization.
At least that's how I see it.
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