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TREKKINGUY wrote: > my doctor told me that insulin can store fat making it harder to lose > weight, does anyone know if this is true? i just have never heard anything > like that before.. > > It's an oversimplification, but in a snese, yes. For example: Suppose you have just eaten a Thanksgiving dinner or about 4000 calories. When all that food is digested, a substantial amount of glucose enters the bloodstream. In non-diabetics, this will trigger the pnacreas to increase the insulin level. The rising insulin level will signal muscle tissue to take up any glucose that it needs, and since you still have extra glucose, it has to go somewhere. The liver will respond to the situation by extracting glucose from the blood and storing in as glycogen. Once the liver is storing all the glycogen it can hold, it comverts any excess glucose to fatty acids, attaches them to cholesterol, and ships the fats off to fat cells for long-term storage. Thus the blood glucosse level remains fairly constant. All of these reactions I have described are reversible, although some may take longer than others, and some are more efficient that others. The bottom line is that if you don't want to get fat(ter) don't eat too much. (ever). You can find much more detail and clarification on this process at any library. To those who have studied the subject, I apologise for trying to simplify this into a short post. Speaking only for myself, Joe Durusau Related Discussion: RemedyFind: Rheumatoid Arthritis section (1 posts) Your Health (1 posts) Lose excess weight and improve you're overall health! (2 posts) Anyone out there with Ankylosing Spondilitis? (2 posts) Top Discussions From Our Archives Nutritional Supplements that really work!! The Science on Chromium Supplements Other Discussion Categories Diabetes Symptoms Health Care Policy Health Care Providers HMO Arthritis Symptoms
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