Mon, Aug-12-13, 09:03
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Plan: Optimal Diet
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Progress: 8%
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Originally Posted by John-PHX
I believe there's at least one more reason people do not succeed on low carb diets. They forget the simple formula that calories in has to be less than calories expended.
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Ah yes, if only we could measure the way our bodies burn calories. Pretty useless to count calories going in without any way to count calories expended.
People vary in their burn rate.
Google "Problems in the Furnace" ATP
Problems in the Furnace
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"In the new study examining how insulin interacts with the energy-producing mitochondria inside living cells, Shulman and his colleagues found that the rate of insulin-stimulated energy production by mitochondria is significantly reduced in the muscles of lean, healthy young adults who have already developed insulin resistance and who are at increased risk of developing diabetes later in life.
This is further evidence that people who are prone to develop diabetes have signs of mitochondrial dysfunction," Shulman said in an interview. This is important because mitochondria are the "energy factories" inside cells and produce most of the chemical power needed to sustain life.
The new research, which is published in the September 2005 issue of the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, indicates that a decreased ability to burn sugars and fats efficiently is an early and central part of the diabetes problem. Their new data also suggest the basic defect lies within the mitochondria, which exist in almost every cell.
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