Some folks have been having a bit of a go at me over at Peter/Hyperlipid's blog. I guess it all started by Peter taking some sort of offense to my post on his Potatoes and weight loss post entitled Insulin Caused Cerebral Stress. My intent with my post was not to mock Peter. It was to point out how so inconsistent with observations the carb/insulin hypothesis is, so as to elicit elaborate explanations such as the scenario Peter described to explain a simple phenomenon: Voight lost weight eating potatoes by estimating his energy needs and eating a controlled amount of predominantly potato-derived calories. Peter, himself, started that post discussing the time/pages he had spent developing his theory. I don't question/contest that what he says regarding insulin, sensitivity, etc. may actually be true. I do believe, however, it is irrelevant. I say that because I just do not see consistent evidence to support his assertion that:
The ultimate determinant of weight loss is fasting insulin. ~Petro Dobromylskyj
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