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Atkins diet is a LIE!?!?!
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The Atkins diet isn't a lie. It says it will help you lose the fat off your body, and that's exactly what it will do.
It's simple biomechanics. young guns pretty much hit the nail on the head. But you don't have to know anything about ketosis or all of that to know the basic principles behind why the diet works. In laymans term's, the Atkins diet is pretty simple science. The body uses 3 main macromolecules for energy: carbohydrate, fat, and protein, in that order. When your body runs out of carbs, the next primary source of energy that it will burn are the fat stores on your body. It has nothing to do with being full or eating less or anything of that nature.
Now as to whether or not it's actually healthy.. that's an entirely new debate..
It's simple biomechanics. young guns pretty much hit the nail on the head. But you don't have to know anything about ketosis or all of that to know the basic principles behind why the diet works. In laymans term's, the Atkins diet is pretty simple science. The body uses 3 main macromolecules for energy: carbohydrate, fat, and protein, in that order. When your body runs out of carbs, the next primary source of energy that it will burn are the fat stores on your body. It has nothing to do with being full or eating less or anything of that nature.
Now as to whether or not it's actually healthy.. that's an entirely new debate..
>The body uses 3 main macromolecules for energy: carbohydrate, fat, and protein, in that order. When your body runs out of carbs, the next primary source of energy that it will burn are the fat stores on your body.
No flame. This is actually not true, the biology and chemistry behind this is *very* complicated. A lot of what you start burning on these diets is dietary protein. That really replaces the carbs, rather than bodyfat. Some bodyfat will also be burned, but it's not a simple fuel source switch.
No flame. This is actually not true, the biology and chemistry behind this is *very* complicated. A lot of what you start burning on these diets is dietary protein. That really replaces the carbs, rather than bodyfat. Some bodyfat will also be burned, but it's not a simple fuel source switch.
nikolai_bolkov
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rtdoplex said:
So based on this principle you will only burn bodyfat when the body has run out of carbs...this is just not true
faller said:
I agree that the chemistry behind why the diet works is complicated, but I disagree with your elaboration. When on a low carb diet your body does NOT primarily burn protein.
Basically what your body does when it has no CHO molecules to work with is it breaks down fat and uses the ketones derived from fat as it's primary energy source. The reason your body does this instead of using protein is fundamentally because fat is an extremely rich energy source (9 calories per gram/dietary) and protein is a moderate energy source but is very hard to break down into useable energy. Once stored in the body it is estimated that 1 pound of bodyfat is equivalent to 3500 calories, and it requires far less conversion and breakdown to access that than it would trying to draw from protein stores. Carbohydrates are the most efficient energy source and proteins are by far the least efficient.
edit: Nikoli, I stated in my post that in LAYMAN's terms (simple terms), that's why the Atkins diet helps people trim down. Obviously the human body does not burn macromolecules in that ladder form and I never claimed it did either. I think it would take the most knowledgeable members of this board days and months to explain how it actually works. That's why in college, courses on this stuff are 20 weeks long. There's no way anything is even close to that simple.
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obiwan9962
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good job rjx
mcbruiser
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I have a question:
how or why is it that the body will produce keytones from body fat when protein converts to glucose at 58% and fat converts to glucose at only 10%??? what faller said makes more sense, that the body will use protein for energy.
i think possibly the reason people expel so many keytones is due to the dietary fat, don't you?
please enlighten me.
how or why is it that the body will produce keytones from body fat when protein converts to glucose at 58% and fat converts to glucose at only 10%??? what faller said makes more sense, that the body will use protein for energy.
i think possibly the reason people expel so many keytones is due to the dietary fat, don't you?
please enlighten me.
