calories in vs. out // Insulin

sannsk

I have a question that's been in my head for a couple of weeks, and since the food section here is down and I can't log currently, I thought I'd give it a go. Give me your thoughts, this is purely out of nerdy curiousity...

statement 1: You need to eat an excess of 3500 calories above your calorie needs to gain 1 lbs of fat.

vs.

statement 2: when you eat refined sugar as in soda's, candy, ... or other carbohydrates by themselves, the sugar enters the bloodstream all at once, sending your blood sugar level soaring. This sets off an alarm and the pancreas secretes insulin into the bloodstream to take some of the sugar out. The Insulin used is afterwards stored as fat.

So how do these two things add up? are they both true? I personally always believed more in the first part,, calories is vs. calories out.

lucasriggs

What.

The second statement make no sense at all.

Insulin has no metabolic pathway to be converted into fat.

sannsk

maybe I worded it incorrectly. Maybe this will make it cleared what I mean:

http://bodybuilding.about.com/od/nutritionbasics/a/glycemicindex.htm

amylahminute

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

l4rest50

bump

fit4lifeUcan2

What.

The second statement make no sense at all.

Insulin has no metabolic pathway to be converted into fat.

I agree with this. My husband is hypoglycemic. His body produces massive amounts of insulin bringing his blood sugar levels way down at times to 60!! If this were true that insulin is stored as fat then my husband would be enormous. Instead he is 6'1" and 165 lbs. He's a stick!

sannsk

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

Thanks for this I understand better now. I have my answer...