Mon, Sep-03-07, 14:00
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
Stats: 260/-/145
BF:
Progress: 63%
Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by Binsk
Thank you for your kind welcome. I have read Dr. Berstein's book and found it very helpful. I am one of the ones that lowcarbing only slightly helps DP. I do think with tweaking my diet as some have here that it could improve further. Does anyone have the answer to what happens with the excess dietary fat we consume (exceeding our caloric needs)?
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Hi Binsk!
You may find this thread very informative regarding what happens to the fat that we eat.
The brief answer is that dietary fat cannot be stored as body fat once it has been broken down into ketones and must either be used or wasted. Excess ketones are 'wasted' through the urine, your lungs, your sweat and your stools.
Also when insulin levels are low, the body does not easily store fat from any energy source since when insulin is low, glucagon is high and when glucagon is high the body is in 'fat burning' mode, not 'fat storing' mode.
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