Can an Alternate-Day High Fat Diet Turn You into a Fat Burning Machine (Boost Your Muscles' Oxidative Capacity)?
Whether the "alternate-day high fat diet" is in fact an alternative to "training low and competing high", which you can also tweak like this , appears questionable to me, but it is certainly interesting. If you take a look at the contemporary "low carb"-hype, one of the often-heard arguments in favor of high(er) fat and low carbohydrate intakes is the notion that this would increase your cells' ability to bur fat... or, as some people phrase it: "A high fat diet will turn you into a fat burning machine!" Believe it or not, this is not totally wrong. What is wrong, though, is that the increase in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation capacity, which is an adaptive response to the lack of other energy sources, will translate into direct fat loss. Eventually, you will still only lose weight and body fat if you are in a caloric deficit: high carb, low carb or no carb - personal preferences and parameters may determine which one works best for ...
