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Pittsburg, Kansas | Your explanation makes sense from what I have learned also. Spot on.
By spiking insulin only one time a day and letting it go low the other 23 hours, more time was available for low insulin/high glucagon levels where fat could be burned.
This gets back to "a calorie is a calorie". Yes it is if you burn the food in a scientific oven. A calorie has the same energy no matter where it came from.
But a calorie is not a calorie when it comes to the way the body metabolizes it. The hormonal response is different for a few slices of bread compared to the equivelent calories of brocolii and different yet for the same number of calories of lard. The bread will spike insulin (locking down fat burning), the lard (fat) will not. The same amount of calories in a chunk of wood (fiber) ground up will be different body response yet. Yet the wood burned would be a calorie like the bread calorie. So a calorie is not a calorie in the way the body responds to it.
And as the research you are referring to shows, even the timing of an equivelent amount of calories of the same food can cause a different body response yet.
Our bodies are not as simplex as "a calorie is a calorie". A carb calorie invokes a completely different hormonal response than a fat calorie. And that hormonal response determines how that energy is utilized or stored.
John
Edited by John Burns 2/22/2020 05:44
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