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Tatyana
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It's the mono and di-glyceride thing, those are modified fats.
This is the deal with fats.
We need fat, there is nothing wrong with fat or even saturated fat (for example animal fat, butter etc). We need them to make things like our sex hormones.
However, modified fats are showing up as one of the major culprits in insulin resistance.
Insulin is not a baddie either, our bodies release it about every 20 min if we eat or not. We just release more of it when we eat, and it is not just carbs that will have higher levels of it in the blood stream.
Insulin is an anabolic hormone of nutrient storage.
It stores glucose as glycogen in the liver and muscle (our bodies convert a lot of food we eat to glucose and shuttle it through the central pathway of metabolism, glycolysis).
It puts amino acids into muscle (good for muscle growth), and it stores triglycerides as fat.
A lot of this 'putting nutrients in' is dependant on the transporters being able to get through the cellular membranes (there is a phospholipid membrane around every cell in your body). The composition of the membrane, which is mostly lipids/fats, is dependent on the fats you eat in your diet.
When you have a lot of the new, modern, 'modified' fats that so many processed foods have, and especially in combination with simple sugars, the membranes get 'stiff' and the transporters can't work as well.
For some reason, this is more of an issue with muscle tissue, so if the nutrients don't go into muscle, they usually end up as fat.
This is another reason why building muscle is so important. When you have a body composition that is a great ratio of muscle to fat, more of what you eat goes to feeding the muscle.
It does take A LOT of calories, about four times the amount that fat requires.
Let me know if this makes sense to you.
Really, I like to call a healthy diet a 'caveman diet' because with few exceptions, if man made/modified it, don't eat it.
This is the deal with fats.
We need fat, there is nothing wrong with fat or even saturated fat (for example animal fat, butter etc). We need them to make things like our sex hormones.
However, modified fats are showing up as one of the major culprits in insulin resistance.
Insulin is not a baddie either, our bodies release it about every 20 min if we eat or not. We just release more of it when we eat, and it is not just carbs that will have higher levels of it in the blood stream.
Insulin is an anabolic hormone of nutrient storage.
It stores glucose as glycogen in the liver and muscle (our bodies convert a lot of food we eat to glucose and shuttle it through the central pathway of metabolism, glycolysis).
It puts amino acids into muscle (good for muscle growth), and it stores triglycerides as fat.
A lot of this 'putting nutrients in' is dependant on the transporters being able to get through the cellular membranes (there is a phospholipid membrane around every cell in your body). The composition of the membrane, which is mostly lipids/fats, is dependent on the fats you eat in your diet.
When you have a lot of the new, modern, 'modified' fats that so many processed foods have, and especially in combination with simple sugars, the membranes get 'stiff' and the transporters can't work as well.
For some reason, this is more of an issue with muscle tissue, so if the nutrients don't go into muscle, they usually end up as fat.
This is another reason why building muscle is so important. When you have a body composition that is a great ratio of muscle to fat, more of what you eat goes to feeding the muscle.
It does take A LOT of calories, about four times the amount that fat requires.
Let me know if this makes sense to you.
Really, I like to call a healthy diet a 'caveman diet' because with few exceptions, if man made/modified it, don't eat it.
and feel icky.
