Pittsburg, Kansas | Curious - 7/24/2025 06:49 Maybe a bit off topic re the taters, but if I brought them back into my feed trough I'd run into the issue of consuming carbs with fat, loaded with butter, sour cream etc. There are folks out there (Bart Kay?) warning against that practice, Krebs cycle, very complicated. Oddly, potatoes are one thing I dreaded giving up going near zero carb. But, in the last 4 years or so any time I've tasted them in any form they seem very blah, and I can't remember what was so great about them.
The last statement fits me also. I was a taters kind of guy. A meal without taters was not really a meal. Now like you say, I will have a bite once in a while or maybe when eating out there will be a bite in meat stew or something, and meh - doesn't really taste that good any more. I am a firm believer that taste buds can change over time and will adapt to the current diet whatever it is.
On your first statement, yes it is complicated at the technical level and yet is very simple at the high level look. Again it has to do with insulin. If you eat the meat with normal fat included the insulin response will be minimal. Not zero but low. If you eat the carbohydrates alone the pancreas will put out enough insulin to induce the cells to take the resulting glucose spike out of the bloodstream. Temporary high insulin levels. But........... if you eat the meat and taters together the potatoes will cause the insulin to spike which turns off fat burning and tells the adipose (fat) cells to store the excess energy. Then the energy from BOTH the fat and carbs will go to storage. When insulin is low the body will actually waste energy to get rid of excess calories. To the tune of about 300 calories a day difference. 300 calories difference a day for a year, five years, 30 years will make the difference of being normal weight or a hundred pounds over weight. This information is covered extensively by professor Ben Bickman, an insulin and fat cell researcher.
Insulin levels are the major key to fat burning or storage. With glucagon also playing a significant though lesser role. Carbohydrates raise insulin levels the most. To keep insulin levels low, avoid the carbs.
https://www.youtube.com/@benbikman #mce_temp_url#
Edited by John Burns 7/24/2025 08:29
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To all the low carb proponents
