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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hyaenidae" data-source="post: 30809442" data-attributes="member: 530392">Your body will burn fat for energy before using lean muscle, as long as fat is available."Everybody worries about all kinds of things like, "Oh, you're going to eat your muscle. You're going to burn your muscles." It's like, right. So the body stores fat as energy and as soon as you need it you start burning muscle and you need your fat there. Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would we do that? Lions, for instance, might eat once a week. You think they're burning their muscle as soon as they stop eating? I doubt it. I suspect that people burn fat because that's the way it was designed.It's like storing firewood. So you spend all winter storing firewood but as soon as the temperate goes down you chop off your sofa and throw it into the wood burning oven. Isn't that insane? That's the same thing. So we store energy as fat but then when it comes down to crunch time we burn our muscles? I don't think so. What you do is you burn sugar and you burn fat. That's the way it's stored and that's the way it goes."-Dr. Jason Fung</blockquote>

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