Re: Eating too much fat?


Ron Peterson wrote:
TC wrote:
Ron Peterson wrote:

Obesity depends on the calorie balance. Obese people have a higher
basal metabolism but are less physically active making for lower
calorie needs for obese people.

Calorie balance? What exactly is the bio-mechanism that determines the
calorie balance and triggers fat storage or fat breakdown?

Consuming more calories than one burns determines fat storage. There is
a little inefficiency in converting carbohydrates to fat, but most
people don't have low enough fat intake to make that a factor.

What hormones or enzymes are involved and what are the biological cascades
that are involved in this feedback bio-mechanism? Huh?

I don't remember saying anything about a feedback bio-mechanism.

--
Ron

There must be a relatively simple feedback mechanism. By that I mean
there must be a way that the body detects a caloric imbalance and a
resulting series of reactions that end with the body being triggered to
store fat or to loss fat. What is the metabolic cascades that goes from
"there are too many leftover calories" to "hey fat cells, here comes
some fat, store it" or conversely that goes from "we don't have enough
calories coming in from food to fuel all the activities and processes"
to "hey fat cells, give up some fat and burn some so that we can meet
our fuel requirements". The former would result in gaining weight and
the former would rsult in loss of weight.

How exactly is the caloric imbalance detected? By what cells? By what
processes? y what bio-chemical cascades? And how exactly does this
determination then trigger the conversion of foodstuffs to fat in the
cell? What is the exact bio-chemical or metabolic processes that do
this?

If calories are the trigger, then we ought to have documented the exact
mechanisms that take place from the point of caloric balance detection
to fat storage or fat loss. Show me a metabolic diagram that explains
the process in detail, or describe the exact series of metabolic
processes involved.

TC

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