Reg,
From the depths of running-nazi-dom: I'm not totally sure if I have this
completely right, but slower exercise, like easy long-distance running,
tends to use both the sugars in your digestive system (your saliva enzyme
ptyalin, and presumably other enzymes will covert all other carbs to
sugars) and your stored fat for energy, while anything that puts you at or
over you aerobic threshold will use up glycogen stored in both your muscles
and your liver. The glycogen is then replaced from your carbohydrate intake
for your next strenuous exercise.
Apart from the general and specific benefits of physical exercise, one's
general muscle tone is improved so that one metabolised more food energy
even when not exercising.
On the other hand, you miss some *great* television! john
At 05:07 PM 2/7/01 +1100, you wrote:
>Thank you all for your helpful remarks on body shape as it relates
>to the body of singing.
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>I was initially concerned about the advisability of entering upon an Atkin's
>low carbohydrate diet and how it might influence the muscles and folds
>directly, rather than how the loss of a ' front porch' would affect the
>customary means of support.
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>I think it may be reasonable to say that once we stop obsessing over any
>form of appetite control it's only a matter of time before we go back to the
>old ways. Mark has shown the need for this with his weekly open day.
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>There are the Gut Busters here who say you can have a beer anytime you
>like..as long as you walk it off that day. Great.
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>There is another who says carbo for breakfast and lunch but NONE for
>the evening meal giving the afternoon to burn it off. It seems logical
>to me that if you go to sleep in the evening after a meal of sugar and fat,
>that the sugar will sustain you through the night and the fat will most
>likely be deposited. Sugar OR fat maybe. Just try separating them if
>you can.
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>How can a body gain access to burning the body fat if we insist on
>supplying it with alcohol, sugar and carbohydrate to burn before it
>can begin the fat chomping?
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>Next, the old farmer in the field. If his hard days work drives him
>regularly to the condition where he has burned his glucose stored
>in the liver, then he must become ketogenic on a daily basis. He must
>be in this state if he's burning his stored fat.
>My question, which is better, not to alternate between these two
>states on a daily basis, or to remain in one of them (either) for a
>sustained period?
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>It would seem that nature has provided both conditions so that they
>can be used regularly. Like they say...use it..or lose it!
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>Another that needs explanation. How do you convert fat to muscle?
>I can imagine there are a lot of people out there quivering in horror
>at the prospect of their present condition becoming one gross muscle.
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>I think I've said all I want except to point out that a balanced diet really
>means a balance of the fuel you EAT against what you BURN, imbalance
>means FAT or THIN. Oh..and don't overlook the fact that fruit is full
>of sugar. Packaged orange juice in this country comes in two labels.
>One is marked NO ADDED SUGAR. That is a downright lie in most
>cases because the authorities allow sugar to be added until the juice
>is the same sweetness as the sweetest of the crop.
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>Regards Reg.
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John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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