Sunday, June 10, 2012

Glyceroneogenesis & The Triglyceride/Fatty Acid Cycle Revisited

Glyceroneogenesis and the Triglyceride/Fatty Acid Cycle   (TAG/FA)
JBC Papers in Press, June 4, 2003, DOI 10.1074/jbc.R300017200
Lea Reshef, Yael Olswang, Hanoch Cassuto, Barak Blum, Colleen M. Croniger, Satish C. Kalhan, Shirley M. Tilghman , and Richard W. Hanson


The above paper is referenced in Good Calories, Bad Calories, and is a paper I believe one cannot read thoroughly and still believe that dietary carbohydrate is required in order to "fix" fat and become obese.  It has been quite a while since I read it in its entirety.  Doing so in recent days I've noticed even more information in this paper that counters the whole notion that more dietary carb leads to more glycerol-3-phosphate leads to more esterification of fatty acids to the storage triglyceride form.   More specifically, these four paragraphs/excerpts were somewhat drowned out for me in my first reading:
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