Journal article
Metabolic flexibility and obesity in children and youth
Abstract
The concept of metabolic flexibility describes the ability of skeletal muscle to switch between the oxidation of lipid as a fuel during fasting periods to the oxidation of carbohydrate during insulin stimulated period. Alterations in energy metabolism in adults with obesity, insulin resistance and/or type 2 diabetes induce a state of impaired metabolic flexibility, or metabolic inflexibility. Despite the increase in the prevalence of type 2 …
Authors
Aucouturier J; Duché P; Timmons BW
Journal
Obesity Reviews, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. e44–e53
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
May 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-789x.2010.00812.x
ISSN
1467-7881