I’m all for that. If it truly is a valuable tool. I’m just not yet convinced that it is.

You should never take what the abstract of a medical paper says to be a summary of what the actual body of the paper shows. You might be interested in reading a post I wrote a few years ago called Baboon Business about the art if dissecting medical studies.

Even using the unusually high standards for quality we’ve come to expect from your blogs, this one is a standout.

Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS

Hey Jonny–

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I read it on the plane a few days ago. It was pretty interesting, but didn’t apply much to diet.

Hi Dr. Eades:, i found out that stationary-bicycling or regular bicycling burns a lot more calories than walking. But some people claim that walking burns more than bicycling, because when you ride a bicycle or stationary bicycle you are sitting down, and walking is standing up. I really don’t understand why then most exercise calorie calculators state that bicycling burns more than walking.

Here is the link of the calories-burned calculator for each sport activity:

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

Thanks, and i would like your comments on this

low-carber

We don’t need any carbohydrates for life. There are no carbohydrate deficiency diseases. The same can’t be said for fat or protein.

I’m sure you’re busy on your new big thing… if you have 2 minutes would you be so kind as to fill in my understanding on these two things please:

1. When one has depleted glycogen stores (such as when on a low-carb diet for an extended period)… what happens if you suddenly ingest a big quantity of carbs? Does excess blood glucose go first to glycogen? Or is it possible to gain fat (shift in the equilibrium of fat into and out of cells) even with depleted glycogen.

2. What happens to excess dietary protein? It obviously does not necessarily get stored as muscle mass as otherwise ingesting high amounts of dietary protein would lead to muscle gain without resistance training. And I presume every after resistance training, there is a maximum amount of protein used in protein syntehis… some used for gluconeogensis if blood glucose levels are getting low and glycogen are low… where does the surplus go? Do it get converted to FAs and glycerol?

I’ve looked for these answers everywhere and can’t find a good overview of glycogen storage that covers this aspect. Would you be able to point me in the right direction please?

Many thanks Michael. I really appreciate it,

Michael

The intake of excess carbs in your first example (those beyond the amount used for energy productiob) would go first to glycogen, then to fat. And probably would do some of both simultaneously.

Excess dietary protein can be converted to sugar (if the body needs it due to low-carb intake) and can be used as a source for other nitrogen-containing body substances (of the three macronutreints only protein contains nitrogen). Any excess is deaminated ( a process whereby the NH3 is removed), leaving a carbon skeleton that can then be treated just like a fat or carbohydrate and burned for energy.

Esp the protein power life plan book and these blog posts – wonderful and excellent.

I cannot believe a process like this will be used to mess up the results. Simply put – remove ITT and provide 2 answers as you have suggested.

Thanks once again for your service.

I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the information.

I was wondering if you read the paper posted in Medscape this week entitled
“Low-Carb/High-Fat or High-Carb/Low-Fat Diet Improves Weight Loss, Mood” in which they found that a low carb diet was superior to a low fat diet in terms of weight loss, but that the low fat diet was associated with a greater improvement in speed of cognitive processing. I find this interesting, because my ability to focus greatly improved on a low carb diet as compared to high carb. Thanks for the post.

Olga

Haven’t read it yet. I saw the Medscape piece, but haven’t had a chance to look at the actual study. I find it hard to believe, however, just as you do.