Lean Tissue: Use it or lose it!!! (WAS: Activity and muscle mass)

[Guest guest]

Hi Joe, and thanks for your kind expression of curiosity.

 

Build, maintain, it's the same thing WRT lean tissue. We are all always

either building lean tissue or losing lean tissue. There is no " maintaining "

in a physical sense, that's just colloquial jargon.

 

Activity under load builds lean tissue ... muscle, bone, and related

tissues. Inactivity causes lean tissue to begin to atrophy. In the popular

jargon of our time, this is the meaning of " use it or lose it " .

 

How do we know this is so? Here is one way:

 

When we send astronauts into space, a weightless environment, they live

outside of the " load " of the Earth's gravitational field. And VERY quickly,

lean tissue begins to atrophy. This is why the various space programs have

all gone to great lengths to introduce rigorous exercise regimens under some

form of load for the astronauts while they are in space. (And of course

while they are on the ground as well.)

 

So there is no contradiction at all. Eating, per se, does not cause the body

to build lean tissue. Eating CAN cause the body to destroy lean tissue, as

when calcium is leached from the bones of SAD eaters. But his is an

asymmetric affair.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Joe Postma

Friday, October 26, 2007 12:20 AM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: Activity and muscle mass (WAS: Question about

weight)

 

 

I think the point was maintenance of weight/muscle, not to build muscle, and

it was a general observation.

 

You contradicted yourself, Elchanan, when you asked " whereby eating any

high-fat food results in production of muscle cells or tissue? " .

 

She never said build, she said maintain. It was a simple comment, and based

on some observations she's had.