Posted on 11/21/2015 4:23:24 PM PST by WhiskeyX
Obesity is a condition of excess fat accumulation in adipocytes where the person is literally stuck in storage mode diverting a disproportionate amount of calories into fat cells as opposed to oxidation. Thus it is more productive to think of obesity as a problem in 'energy flow' rather than energy expenditure (i.e., calories in, calories out). The most efficient approach to accelerate the body's ability to access and burn body fat is to restrict dietary carbohydrate while increasing fat intake for a period of several weeks, after which fatty acids and ketones become the primary fuel at rest and during submaximal exercise. The coordinated set of metabolic adaptations that ensure proper inter-organ fuel supply in the face of low carbohydrate availability is referred to as keto- adaptation. This unique metabolic state has recently been shown to have widespread and profound therapeutic and performance-enhancing effects ranging from reversing type 2 diabetes to shrinking tumors to allowing ultra-endurance runners to set course records. This presentation will discuss the physiologic effects of very low carbohydrate diets with an emphasis on their unique effects on both features of metabolic syndrome and human performance.
Dr. Jeff Volek is a Full Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut where he teaches and leads a research team that explores the physiologic impact of various dietary and exercise regimens and nutritional supplements. Dr. Volek's most significant line of work has been a series of studies aimed at better understanding what constitutes a well formulated low carbohydrate diet and the physiological impact on obesity, body composition, fatty acid composition and lipoprotein metabolism, gut micro-biome, adaptations to training and overall metabolic health. This line of work has shown profound effects of ketogenic diets on overall health and well-being, as well as peak performance....
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Jeff Volek - The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation: Health, Performance, and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1vMBRFiwE
This video is one in a series of videos and websites which are being posted on FreeRepublic in the coming days in regard to nutritional health. In the beginning these videos were being posted as a rebuttal to an article and comments in another posted article on FreeRepublic remarking on obesity. Due to the strong interest in obesity and nutritional health as it relates to Type II Diabetes, the videos relating to Type II diabetes and how to reverse the progression of the disease are being moved forward among the other video topics in this series. Expect to see a mixture of videos regarding the role of carbohydrates in the diet and their relationship to nutritional health topics ranging from metabolic syndrome and Diabetes to dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Altzheimer's Disease, and more. The effects of standard government sponsored diets, health association diets, and alternative diets upon everyday nutrition, sports nutrition, and diabetic nutrition will be mixed in with videos focused on the use of various low carbohydrate and high fat (LCHF) diets, such as the ketogenic diets as a treatment for Type II Diabetes.
Anyone who is interested in following this series of posts about nutritional health is invited to request a ping.
The Nutritional Health Series includes the following FreeRepublic posts and links.
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 1-20 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 20
How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3360307/posts
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 21-29 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 31 Fake Olive Oil, It's Everywhere. Most Likely In Your Kitchen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3360590/posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNsGzmtCd8I
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 31-40 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 41
Eat Better Episode 2 - Ketogenic Diets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3362156/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOGBtBunBY
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 41-50 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 50
JumpstartMD presents Dr. Peter Attia on the Role of Fat in Weight Loss - Part 3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3362912/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5wquzbtAY
Nutritional Health Series, Part 51
Dr. Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3363176/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9TIHmsxZU
Nutritional Health Series, Part 52
Fresh Salmon Cakes Recipe - Salmon Patties with Fresh Wild Salmon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3363177/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGd3vVF_RQk
Nutritional Health Series, Part 53
Peter Attia - An Advantaged Metabolic State: Human Performance, Resilience & Health
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3363270/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqwvcrA7oe8
Nutritional Health Series, Part 54
Jeff Volek - The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation: Health, Performance, and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1vMBRFiwE
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I’m on the Atkins diet:
I play my guitar and drink a lot :-)
Seriously, there is absolutely no way around the fact that if you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight. The timing and quality of food and exercise matters, but you can no more eat fewer calories than you burn and NOT lose weight than you can levitate (or violate any other law of physics_. I did the low carb thing and DID lose weight, but keeping a sane balance of protein/carbs/fats and eating less than you use is a lot more fun and easier to maintain in my experience.
“Seriously, there is absolutely no way around the fact that if you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight.”
You’ve just repeated the misconception and half-truth which has doomed millions of people to obesity, misery, and suffering. The phrase is a misapplication of the laws of thermodynamics, because the phrase includes an implied assumption which is not present in normal metabolisms or in cases of metabolic syndrome. If you stop, reconsider the phrase, question the implied assumptions, you should be able to quickly see the false assumption/s.
Mere "calories" is a false metric for weight loss. The source of calories is the proper measurement, because food sources are treated very differently by the body, and have very different effects on the body. That's what this series of articles is about. For example, per this article, if you're overweight and start to get your calories from fat instead of heavy carbs, your body goes into a mode where it starts burning fat, instead of storing it. Whereas, if you keep eating heavy carbs, it keeps using those carbs as fuel to store more accumulations of fat.
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But diet can impact both how many calories you eat (via satiation) and how many you burn (via different metabolic effects and energy levels).
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