Gender Differences in Fat Metabolism

August 21, 2012

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Male/Female” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/malefemale.jpg” alt=”malefemale” width=”288″ height=”287″ /A few months ago, I addressed the role a title=”Dear Mark: Women and Intermittent Fasting” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/women-and-intermittent-fasting/#axzz248KNvVmT”gender plays in how we respond to intermittent fasting/a. That post sparked a great discussion, and I#8217;ve since received a fair number of emails from readers eager to learn other ways in which gender plays a role in our health and nutrition. One email in particular set me off on a round of research. So, a hat tip to you, Winifred, for giving me something to think, learn, and write about. I hope everyone finds it to be helpful./p
pAs you may know, women and men store and metabolize fat differently from each other, and a 2008 paper (a title=”Sex differences in fat storage, fat metabolism, and the health risks from obesity: possible evolutionary origins” href=”http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2F19830_4BE93ABC99689E2A140BB87CAA19C980_journals__BJN_BJN99_05_S0007114507853347a.pdfamp;cover=Yamp;code=02311957beb462e1329e7a33e0a9df0e” target=”_blank”PDF/a) reviewed the evolutionary reasons for these differences. Here#8217;s a summary of their findings and few other noteworthy factoids:/p
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