darrenG10
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Cliffs
- At a fundamental level, fat storage occurs when caloric intake exceeds caloric output. Now, I know that a lot of people claim that basic thermodynamics don’t hold for humans. Simply, they are wrong. Invariably, the studies used to support this position are based on a faulty data set: people under-report food intake
- Net Change in Fat Stores = Fat Stored – Fat Burned
- Carbs are rarely converted to fat and stored as such
- Protein is basically never going to be converted to fat and stored as such
- When you eat more protein, you burn more protein (and by extension, less carbs and less fat); eat less protein and you burn less protein (and by extension, more carbs and more fat)
- Ingested dietary fat is primarily stored, eating more of it doesn’t impact on fat oxidation to a significant degree
- Excess dietary fat is directly stored as fat
- Excess dietary carbs increases carb oxidation, impairing fat oxidation; more of your daily fat intake is stored as fat
- Excess dietary protein increases protein oxidation, impairing fat oxidation; more of your daily fat intake is stored as fat
- When dietary fat is below about 10% of total daily calories, the body ramps up de novo lipogenesis (creation of fat from carbs). So you still get fat.