Stomach fat

...I have been thin (under 10% body fat) 2 times in my life... But, these were not my healthiest times, just my leanest. My healthiest time I had a belly bulge, but great muscle mass, doing 3-4 3000m swim workouts a week with some weight training, but not a ton... A good point. What happened to the set point theory, where everyone has a personal ideal mass that isn't necessarily thin? I think it's still valid. I wasn't very healthy when at my thinnest, either. ...I think one of the main reasons for this order (under stress, of course) is that the brain wants glucose... its the only energy that the brain can use. So actual glucose goes first, then protein as it can be converted to glucose, then fat because fat turns into ketones, not glucose!... Children with certain kinds of epilepsy are sometimes put on ketogenic diets (very high fat) when they don't respond to medication.www.epilepsyontario.org/.../Ketogenic Diet After a time on this diet, their brains learn to use ketones for fuel and they can come off again. So, it is possible to use fat as brain fuel, which makes sense when you look at how few carbs are in a stone-age hunter-gatherer type diet. (Oddly enough, it also works for hot flashes. I tried it after a disastrous experience with HRTs - I ended up in the emergency ward with stroke-like symptoms. It actually did work - I went from 12-16 flashes a day to 3 or 4 - but unfortunately gained ten pounds in the process. It was an unpleasant diet, to say the least.)

...I have been thin (under 10% body fat) 2 times in my life... But, these were not my healthiest times, just my leanest. My healthiest time I had a belly bulge, but great muscle mass, doing 3-4 3000m swim workouts a week with some weight training, but not a ton... A good point. What happened to the set point theory, where everyone has a personal ideal mass that isn't necessarily thin? I think it's still valid. I wasn't very healthy when at my thinnest, either. ...I think one of the main reasons for this order (under stress, of course) is that the brain wants glucose... its the only energy that the brain can use. So actual glucose goes first, then protein as it can be converted to glucose, then fat because fat turns into ketones, not glucose!... Children with certain kinds of epilepsy are sometimes put on ketogenic diets (very high fat) when they don't respond to medication.www.epilepsyontario.org/.../Ketogenic Diet After a time on this diet, their brains learn to use ketones for fuel and they can come off again. So, it is possible to use fat as brain fuel, which makes sense when you look at how few carbs are in a stone-age hunter-gatherer type diet. (Oddly enough, it also works for hot flashes. I tried it after a disastrous experience with HRTs - I ended up in the emergency ward with stroke-like symptoms. It actually did work - I went from 12-16 flashes a day to 3 or 4 - but unfortunately gained ten pounds in the process. It was an unpleasant diet, to say the least.)