Re:The economics of thinness
by dragonwriter on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:01PM
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> There is no mechanism in the body to turn fat stores into muscle.
Which is why you can’t build muscle without eating, but you can have a calorie deficit building muscle from food consumed and losing a greater mass of fat than the muscle built. “Convert fat to muscle”, I will admit, was a perhaps overly informal description of that for this context, but its the net effect.
Which is why you can’t build muscle without eating, but you can have a calorie deficit building muscle from food consumed and losing a greater mass of fat than the muscle built. “Convert fat to muscle”, I will admit, was a perhaps overly informal description of that for this context, but its the net effect.