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by jacques_chester 4742 days ago
You are wrong. The body can and does assimilate dietary fat into adipose tissue.

Low-carb diets work by reducing total dietary calories; a secondary contributing cause is satiety from an increase in protein.

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How does it do that without insulin?
Acylation Stimulating Protein
ASP stores fat in adipose tissue, but it's nowhere as effective as insulin. ASP secretion is controlled by chylomicrons, which are very short lived, and that makes it so that only a very limited amount of dietary fat can be stored as body fat.
>a very limited amount of dietary fat can be stored as body fat

In the complete absence of insulin, maybe, which is almost never the case in normal dietary conditions, since both protein and carbohydrate stimulate insulin secretion. But dietary fat is nonetheless the primary source of body fat; direct conversion of dietary carbohydrate to body fat is not a quantitatively significant process in humans except for in extreme conditions. See De novo lipogenesis in humans: metabolic and regulatory aspects. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10365981

"Only when CHO energy intake exceeds TEE does DNL in liver or adipose tissue contribute significantly to the whole-body energy economy."