tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168855552158312440.post7667242061876050494..comments2023-05-11T20:27:09.878+10:00Comments on Girl Gone Primal: It's Hard To Describe...Jezwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11649071387857019341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168855552158312440.post-70175391882083019232009-12-14T06:56:46.801+11:002009-12-14T06:56:46.801+11:00Hello again, read this important article i got fro...Hello again, read this important article i got from the web, about the importance of high-fat intake on low-carb diets:<br /><br />WHY LOW-CARB DIETS MUST BE HIGH IN FAT.<br /><br />http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/fat-not-protein.html<br /><br />Introduction<br />We now know that we should eat a diet that is low in carbohydrates. But a plethora of books published in the last decade have been low-carb, high-protein, or low-carb, high-fat, or low-carb, high-'good'-fats, or all sorts of other mixtures. In other words, the real confusion lies in what we should replace the carbohydrates with: for example, should it be protein or fats? And if fats, what sort of fats? This article, I hope, will answer the question and put any doubts out of your mind. In a nutshell, carbs should be replaced with fats, and those fats should be mainly from animal sources. <br /><br />Our bodies use carbs for only one purpose: to provide energy. When we cut down on carbs, the energy our bodies need has to come from somewhere else. <br /><br />There are only two choices: Protein or fat.<br /><br />ATP: our bodies' fuel<br />The fuel that our body cells use for energy is actually neither glucose nor fat, it is a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). A typical human cell may contain nearly one billion molecules of ATP at any one moment, and those may be used and re-supplied every three minutes.[i] This huge demand for ATP, and our evolutionary history, has resulted in our bodies' developing several different pathways for its manufacture. <br /><br /><br />Oxygen and mitochondria<br />Living organisms have two means to produce the energy they need to live. The first is fermentation, a primitive process that doesn't require the presence of oxygen. This is the way that anaerobic (meaning 'without oxygen') bacteria break down glucose to produce energy. Our body cells can use this method. The second — aerobic (meaning 'using oxygen') — method began after the Earth began to cool down and its atmosphere became rich in oxygen. After this event, a new type of cell — a eukaryotic cell — evolved to use it. Today all organisms more complex than bacteria use this property and all animal life requires oxygen to function. When we breathe in, our lungs are used to extract the oxygen in air and pass it to the bloodstream for transport through the body. And in our bodies, it is our body cells' mitochondria — little power plants that produce most of the energy our bodies need — that use this oxygen. The process is called 'respiration'. This process takes the basic fuel source and oxidises it to produce ATP. The numbers of mitochondria in each cell varies, but as much as half of the total cell volume can be mitochondria. The important point to note is that mitochondria are primarily designed to use fats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168855552158312440.post-34207600555964184262009-12-14T06:53:52.145+11:002009-12-14T06:53:52.145+11:00Hello, what do you think about butter? Do you thin...Hello, what do you think about butter? Do you think butter helps to increase satiety? Because i read in an article the importance of fats on low-carb diets. So i have been introducing butter in my diet. This is what my new diet with butter looks like:<br /><br />this is what my new ketogenic low-carb diet looks like:<br /><br /><br />Breakfast:<br /><br />Protein pancake<br />1 cup of egg whites or 1 cup of egg-beaters<br />1 scoop of whey protein powder<br />1 table-spoon of regular butter<br />Mix ingredients and cook like a pancake<br /><br /><br />Lunch:<br /><br />10 to 14 ounces of baked chicken or turkey<br /><br /><br /><br />Dinner:<br /><br />Protein pancake<br /><br />1 cup of egg-whites<br />1/2 cup of egg-beaters<br />2 scoops of whey protein powder<br />1 spoon of butter<br /><br />Mix ingredients in blender and cook like a pancake<br /><br />if u feel hungry between meals eat pieces of cold meat, or turkey breast ham<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com