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(Dan Moore @ Feb. 27 2007,08:20)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Bro Logic rules and Shut up and lift dude
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Occasionally, one has to remember just to eat, sleep, lift, and grow without reading too much into it. No need to over analyze everything.
And saying that "these processes rarely happen with humans" is just silly. Look around at all the fat people. They ate too many carbs, too much protein, and too much fat...i.e. they over ate and got fat. Pretty simple really. I was one of those fat people. My endocrinology lessons let me know how I got to be one and it can be understood that way on a very complex level. But simple logic told me the same answer with a lot less words. I ate too damn much for my activity level.
The formula for me was simple. Eat less, lift more, do more cardio, burn off excess body fat.
When I got down to 170 at a very low body fat percentage how to grow was also simple. Eat more, lift more, do less cardio, grow some muscles.
Isn't that all any of us want to do anyway, have more muscle/strength with less body fat to go along with it?
The original question was can protein turn into body fat. Of course it can. So can carbs. So can fat. If taken in excess over what is needed to grow on, the excess WILL be stored as fat.