marneedear's Journal

Why Go High Fat Very Low Carb?
Oct 13 2008 00:18

Simply eating more fat wont release fat because too much carb and sugar will keep the fat in the fat cells and increase the rate at which is it stored due to the insulin reaction to sugar in the blood stream which is then related to how triglycerides are stored and kept in the fat cells, in all its varieties.

My understanding is that you simply cannot get store too much fat if you are eating according to hunger and eating very little carb (and moderate protein as it does get turned into glucose like carb) because so long as there is enough fat in the buffer your body will not release the hormones to tell your brain that you need more energy and you need to eat more.  So you end up only eating when needed and only as much as needed.  None will get stored in significant amounts in the body eating this way.  Eating carb does not do this as it gets absorbed into the blood stream very quickly, hangs out for a while waiting to get used as fuel and if not used then gets used to store fat via the triglyceride-insulin reaction.

Plus if you eat enough carb to reach your insulin resistance threshold, your body will produce enough insulin to make your fat cells ONLY store fat, very reluctantly releasing it no matter how little you eat.

sigh

For a good primer see this video.  Then get the book Good Calories Bad Calories.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4362041487661765149