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From:	Augusto (151.41.115.199)
Subject:	Calories, fats and weight loss
Date:	August 10, 2012 at 4:30 pm PST

Dear Dr. Graham,
As you say, I know that when it comes right down to weight
loss and fat loss, it’s the calories that count.

Anyway, like McDougall and Lany Muelrath say, there is
evidence that though it is possible for bodyfat stores to be
multiplied via any excessive dietary calorie intake, it is far
easier for the body to store dietary fat as bodyfat than
dietary carbohydrate.
Dietary fat slips quite easily via the action of LPL
(lipoprotein lipase, the key enzyme for storing fat in your
cells) into fat cells for storage, whereas carbohydrate is
more easily disippated as body heat and more reluctant to
generate addition fat stores.
LPL is looking for fat. It pulls it out of the fat molecules
in what you eat to pass it as quickly and efficiently as
possible into body fat for storage. In contrast, the process
for carbohydrate to be stored as body fat is far less
efficient, meaning the body takes a chunk of the energy
available in dietary carbohydrate to convert it to fat
storage.

So, Yes, calories count. Yet evidence suggests that when
those calories come from dietary fat, there is more to it.

Do you agree?

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