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seansquared

Actually, protein spikes insulin even more than carbs in some cases. Even eating pure fat will cause an insulin response. Not only that, insulin does not immediately cause you to store fat, that's an incredibly short sighted, and honestly uneducated view point. It's also responsible for nutrient uptake in muscle and organ tissue, as well as dozens of other biological functions. The whole anti-carb argument is pretty silly, it's the exact same argument, and exact same reasoning, as the anti-fat movement from the last 30 years. Carbs aren't processed any differently than any other food.

You should probably read more on what Insulin actually does and the protein spike/glucagon balancing act before saying that the anti-carb argument is "silly".

tigersword

Actually, protein spikes insulin even more than carbs in some cases. Even eating pure fat will cause an insulin response. Not only that, insulin does not immediately cause you to store fat, that's an incredibly short sighted, and honestly uneducated view point. It's also responsible for nutrient uptake in muscle and organ tissue, as well as dozens of other biological functions. The whole anti-carb argument is pretty silly, it's the exact same argument, and exact same reasoning, as the anti-fat movement from the last 30 years. Carbs aren't processed any differently than any other food.

You should probably read more on what Insulin actually does and the protein spike/glucagon balancing act before saying that the anti-carb argument is "silly".

Glucagon has nothing really to do with it. Glucagon is the opposite of insulin, when insulin drops, and blood sugar gets too low, glucagon is released to initiate fat burning in order to bring blood sugar back up to normal levels. Not relevant to insulin spikes. Glucagon is what keeps blood sugar steady during fasting. Which has nothing to do with insulin levels and blood sugar being spiked from eating food. Remember, when protein spikes insulin, in the absence of carbs, the body converts the protein to glucose to keep blood sugar levels steady. In other words, protein can, and often does, act exactly the same way as carbs do.

And like I said, the anti-carb argument is almost weird for word exactly the same as the anti-fat argument from the 80's. Once research came out showing that fat wasn't as bad as they were trumpeting, suddenly all the things that were blamed on fat were blamed on carbs instead, even though there still isn't real scientific evidence to back it up.

joe7880

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