[Insigne123]

I offer an alternative diet regimen: STOP SHOVING SO MUCH FOOD DOWN YOUR PIE WHOLE!

[Secret Agent Man]

It isnt just that. The types of calories you put in, affdct the body differently. Consider uncut gas versus ethanol gas on two stroke engines, and even what e85 would do to a regular engine vs gas.

Body handles carbs, proteins and fat differently. If you ate 2500 calories of carbs, your body would deal with it a lot differently than 2500 calories of protein, or 2500 calories of fat. Right now too many people have problems because they have followed big govt advice to eat a high carb, low profein, low fat diet.

[Scrambler Bob]

DOWN YOUR PIE WHOLE!

Cut up your pie.

[Fungi]

Good response. May I add eat no processed food, a lot of garlic, olive oil, some fish twice a week and everything else you want, and then a few brews and some red wine with your steak. Vundabar!! I could add some Ganoderma lucidum tea every day, but that would be going too far.

[cripplecreek]

Get out and get active.

[driftless2]

STOP SHOVING SO MUCH FOOD DOWN YOUR PIE WHOLE!

I don't...I slice the pie into nice sections and then eat all of it.

[editor-surveyor]

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What you shove down the hole matters far more than how much.
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[RetiredArmyMajor]

“I offer an alternative diet regimen: STOP SHOVING SO MUCH FOOD DOWN YOUR PIE WHOLE!”

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You might actually study the hard science behind Syndrome X/insulin resistance and the positive effect that ketogenic diets have on treating this disorder.

For example, rats genetically engineered to be insulin resistant actually gained body fat while eating 1/4th of their daily nutritional requirement. They starved to death while gaining body fat. All their tissues OTHER than fat wasted away. Learn how this same thing happens with people who become insulin resistant.

So, yes . . . balancing energy input with energy output works in maintaining body weight . . . except that in an insulin resistant person the balancing isn’t done by using fat as an in/out usable storehouse of energy. The fat can easily be stored, but cannot be released and burned for energy between meals. So the body will cannibalize muscle, brain, liver and other organs unless the person keeps eating, even if they just at a huge meal and significant portions of that meal were stored as body fat.

Read Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories or Phinney and Volek’s The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living.

It turns out that Dr. Atkins was right all along. And now science is beginning to recognize it through actual studies. The problem is sugar in all its forms (including starch) and not consumed fats.