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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:12:54 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>...People who want to lose weight want to get rid of some stored
>body fat. It makes sense to think of this process in
>evolutionary terms. Why do we store body fat at all? Clearly,
>it is to offset future times of scarcity of food. Why is stored
>body fat an advantage in such conditions? Because we can use it
>as fuel instead of food, or in addition to limited supplies of
>food. Everybody knows this, but sometimes we seem to forget it.
Hello Todd, reading your post some idea come to my mind
I'd like to share and hear you opinion(s).
1st.
Body fat has annother advantage (besides storage):
- it isolates the body
. Wouldn't it be a useful reaction of
the body to increase the body isolating layer if it is
sensing too cool temperatures for some time?
2nd.
Body fat as a storage is only useful if times of food scarcity
occur (otherwise it could become a hinderance in running
or transporting things).
Maybe scarcity periods set a stimulous to build better
storages, next time energy is available.
Maybe even by lowering the basal metabolism to spare
more energy.
Some conclusions from this hypothesis would be:
to 1)
-Don't let parts of your body get too cold often
(many have a reduced body temperature slightly below
the 37DC, and/or cold hands/feet)
-train you blood circulation to ensure that
-ensure a proper vitamin-b1 supply
(I'm suspecting b1-deficits to result in an under-heating
of the body because b1 will be used with priority for the
nerval system, if it is little).
to 2)
-don't make frequent fasting periods
They'll tell your body to aquire more storage for the next time
-eat if you're hungry
Besides that I think that eating over one's needs
in terms of energy will result from deficits of
any essential nutritiant(especially vitamins),
trying to compensate any lack by increased intake.
That all could be adaptions to an evolutionary optimal
behaviour (for the first two)
or ill-adaption to a composition of food-items that
"surprisingly" has lacks on any vitamins.
Just a little idea from somone lucky enough never
to have to desire to loose weigh.
(and most always in a worm environment,
with plenty b1 and othervitamins, seldom hungry)
regards
Amadeus
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