OUTSMARTING THE FEMALE FAT CELL: YOU CANT STARVE A FAT CELL - THE SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST LESSON

Your body may have learned the survival of the fattest lesson from your ancestors, but you keep giving it a refresher course on fat protection each time you go on a diet, and a refresher course on fat storage each time you go off a diet and back to your old eating habits. The famine/feast cycle of yesterday is the diet/binge cycle of today.

If you are the type of person who needs scientific, quantitative, factual, biochemical information to convince you that you can't starve a fat cell no matter how hard you try, read on and pay close attention. I'll relate everything to the physiology of the fat cell and the enzyme systems.

When you go on a diet, the red warning lights flash and the biochemical changes begin. First, there is the activation and multiplication of the fat-storing lipogenic enzymes. While you are on a diet, your body is actually trying to store more fat, but the real reason for the activation of the lipogenic enzymes is so that you will be better equipped to store plenty of fat after the diet. Research done at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and other institutions has found that low-calorie diets at least double the lipogenic storage enzymes. Women already have more storage enzymes than men, and dieting doubles them.

Your fat cells are threatened and respond to the possible famine (your latest diet) by becoming at least twice as efficient at storage. The next time you go on a diet, your fat cells will be more likely to survive because they are larger, stronger, and more stubborn. Your fat cells are always thinking about your survival. Isn't that nice of them?

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