The avoiding carbs before bed thing still doesnt make to much sense to me. If you have the carbs earlier in the day rather than at night your still going to end up burning more carbs and less fat at the time u have them or end up with more glycogen at that time. And if im right from what i know of how i think it works, the more glycogen you have stored at any time the lower the % of fat your body burns. Which is why loads of people came out with the "you have to run for atleast X amount of time before you start burning fat". They spent most of that time lowering their glycogen supplies which in turn increased the % of fat being used.
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(quadancer @ Nov. 16 2006,19:05)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">As far as going to bed with a gut full of fuels, how are you gonna burn it? Heavy snoring? That's why we use proteins and maybe a little fat at night.</div>
Surely thats the whole reason sleeps viewed as being catabolic, because your body does need energy during sleep and so starts breaking itself down to provide it. The brain itself needs glucose so hasto break down muscle proteins into amino acids and then convert that into the glucose.
Peak this is what i meant by insulin flushing what you've eaten into fat cells: <div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Our body strongly regulates the amount of glucose in the blood available at any moment. Our physiology aggressively prevents excesses of glucose by a significant protective mechanism that relies upon a hormone called insulin. Insulin reduces excessive glucose in the blood by causing the glucose to move out of the blood and into cells. Insulin also causes fats that are in the blood to move into cells.</div>
In terms of eating carbs & fats at the same time what both quad and peak are saying makes a lot of sense to me as they are both seperate fuels. Though ive also at the same time read a study on food combining (seperating carbs & fat) compared against a balanced diet (not doing so) and there was no significant difference in weight loss between the two (people on the balanced actually lost more).
Also im thinking now eating fat with simple carbs would ofcourse lower the glycemic index of the meal, as the more fat a meal contains the slower the carbs would be converted into glucose and absorbed into the blood steam, which in turn should greatly reduce the insulin response?
From this point of view though it would seem that carbs & fats together are going to effect you the same way regardless of whether theyre in the form of a dessert of some kind or so called healthier foods?
Thats intresting about the lactose intolerance for milk, that makes a lot of sense. The guys ive seen talking about it were normally cutting up for competitions and talking about things like being to smooths so it fits.
About fruit i know it contains fructose which only the liver can convert into glycogen..which would make it easier to overload the liver, though i dont know how much fructose most fruits contain compared to the amount the liver can hold.