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Exercise vs Diet NYT article
Interesting research about the impact of diet and about calorie regulation. In keeping with what we are seeing with our horses once we eliminate grain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/well/move/weight-gain-amazon.html?referringSource=articleShare
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This article misses critical points that I will go over this Sunday in the Zoom meeting. In essence, there are 2 ways to get glucose into cells: insulin dependent and insulin independent. Exercise triggers the independent pathway. Further, increased body fat leads to the development of intracellular fat in the muscle cells. This is the first sign of IR (insulin resistance) seen decades before the blood values start to show in lab tests. In fact, muscle biopsies from healthy, lean, non-smoking, non-alcohol drinking 20 year olds showed that 50% of the sedentary subjects had started intracellular fat accumulation while 0% of the active subjects had.
Exercise leads to FLUX of fuels into the cells as well as FLEXIBILITY of the choice of fuels between fat and sugar. Calories of food intake are the same but with much different results.
Interesting find, Kathy, but behind the “Times” in research. Correct in that calories don’t count (the title of a book my parents bought when I was a child). Diet is very important as well as exercise – both will lead to the results we want. But in horses, a sedentary lifestyle for many with EMS (equine metabolic syndrome) is at the root cause even when muzzled and half starved. But how to exercise laminitic, retired, lame or unridable horses – that is the question.
See you on Sunday at 8pm eastern.
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Appreciate the additional info and am looking forward to the zoom!
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