Originally Posted by
koffee brown
Ummmm... no it isn't.
Fats are NOT burned effectively with your primary fuel source coming from a high protein diet. Congratulations, though! You've just described ketosis! Welcome to the starvation diet of the 90s!
It may be time for you to take another look at the Krebs cycle again- I'm reading what you're saying and seeing that you don't have quite a grasp on nutrition and basic biochemistry.
koffee
Don't emphasize the "NOT" in all capital letters, it sort of implies something which isn't true. You should instead have said "Fats are not burned
AS effectively on a protein only diet..." To which I would agree. But stating that fats cannot be burned on a protein/fat diet is pure horse****.
Also, while calling it a starvation diet is accurate, such wording would lead to someone coming to the conclusion that it is ineffective to the point of decreased metabolic rate, or that it would deplete muscle stores to fuel the body, and that is most certainly
not the case. By definition it is a starvation diet as far as biology is concerned, but there is a stark contrast between fat/protein diets and calorie-deficient diets. In the former case muscle mass is preserved and the brain can function normally utilizing ketones. Not so in the latter.