Would obese clients benefit more from higher fat ratios than lean clients? Ie. If calculating macros and deciding between .4-.7g fat per pound of bodyweight, would it be safe to assume they may have a low carb tolerance and thus the higher end fat allotment would be superior? Just a thought after reading Alan Aragon's thoughts in one of his books.

Similarly, Alan assumes a client of 25% bf (borderline obese) and who is sedentary throughout the day may also do better with fewer carbs and more fat (.6g fat per pound).

I would think so.

Perhaps my Canadian asian friend will chime in

Is that canadian asian fella the buff cloudman? in for his thoughts

Is there a long running joke that I'm Asian? Lol I'm white af. The amazing thing about the body is that metabolism will quite quickly adjust to oxidize essentially whatever you give it. If your intake of lipids is high, fatty acid metabolism will increase, whereas if your protein intake is high your body will adjust it's amino acid metabolism accordingly, in a healthy human. In obese individuals who may or may not have issues with insulin sensitivity, there is essentially less tissue mass that will be able to make use of sugars. If that's what you mean by low carb tolerance, you could suggest that a lower carb diet (and subsequently higher fat) would make sense as long as it's isoenergetic. That said there are secondary mechanisms in exercise that can stimulate the uptake of glucose into muscle without insulin signalling that may be able to improve carbohydrate metabolism. The main mechanism is release of calcium during muscle contraction which up regulates glut4 translocation to the muscle membrane. I am not up to date on the newest literature regarding obesity and exercise nutrition however so I don't know the popular scientific opinion

Ok u fkn nerd asian

LOL

AA and schuler (and helms) already admitted that in the long run, the cho-fats ratio doesn't matter given the same protein intake, for fatloss that is.

Link?

Its just the first link of google when he googles every question

follow them on fb, I don't keep posts saved.



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