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To: BobL

>>Starvation happens when you run out of usable fat...then your body will start eating muscle.

Wrong.

Fat is metabolized by the TCA/Citric Acid Cycle.

Oxaloacetate is required in that chemistry.

Where does oxaloacetate come from when a carbohydrate source isn’t available?


61 posted on 12/26/2017 10:41:53 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: HLPhat

“Wrong. Fat is metabolized by the TCA/Citric Acid Cycle.”

Sorry, but I’m still alive, along with 2 others here. Try that ADM propaganda somewhere else.


77 posted on 12/26/2017 11:42:30 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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