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Todd Moody wrote:
>This is, incidentally, the concept behind Ori Hofmekler's "warrior diet"
>which encourages overeating once a day and undereating (nearly
>nothing) the rest of the day. The purpose of the one big protein-rich
>meal is to cause an insulin surge, since insulin is an anabolic hormone,
>and to use that to push amino acids into the cells that need them.
>During that time, muscle is being built. The rest of the time, the body
>switches into catabolic mode, to liberate fat from fat cells for energy,and
>to release stored glycogen. Working out increases the demand for the amino
>acids, and thus increases protein uptake. Thus, on this sort of plan, the
>metabolism is anabolic for 4 hours out of 24, and catabolic for the other
>20.>
Also on TV last night by this same personal trainer who made a comment about
your body eating muscle, he said not to eat more than 2-3 oz of protein at a
time because your body couldn't metabolize it.
Kim
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