Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
You can be skinny, but still have a gut.

I've never tried this triglicerid (medium length fatty acid?) diet, but it doesn't look like something that'd cause harm. A quick google tells me it's an easily absorbed fatty acid that is supposedly good for weight loss because it promotes fatty oxidation (not unlike ketogenic diet and low carb diets, really). As for why a medium length fatty acid (which is digested without wasting energy) is preferred over long chain fatty acids (which require more energy to digest before you can actually use it), I have no idea.
Ok, found some info on triglycerides. They are actually bad for you in high amounts, so either what UChess is taking is supposed to remove them from your system, or in the case of someone as slim as he, add some fat to his diet.

Fish oil supplements are good for reducing triglyceride levels in your body:

High triglycerides are associated with heart disease and untreated diabetes. To reduce the risk of heart disease, doctors believe it is important to keep triglycerides below a certain level. Doctors usually recommend increasing physical activity and restricting dietary fat to lower triglycerides. Sometimes they also prescribe drugs such as gemfibrozil (Lopid) for use in addition to these lifestyle changes. Now researchers believe that fish oil, though not as effective as gemfibrozil, can reduce triglyceride levels by 20% to 50%.
Also this:
There are two forms of fat in the human body: triglycerides and fatty acids. Human fat/adipose tissue/love handles – whatever you call it – this is the fat stored as triglycerides. Fatty acids are burned for fuel. Triglycerides are three fatty acids joined together by something called glycerol. Fat enters and exits fat cells as fatty acids (triglycerides are too big to move across the cell membrane – think of a membrane as a cell ‘wall’).

When we talk about fat stored as human fat tissue, we are talking about triglycerides. Inside the fat cell, fatty acids continually ‘cycle’ across the cell membrane and back out again. Fatty acids can be used as fuel during this process (or recycled/stored if they are not used). If three fatty acids are joined by glycerol to form a triglyceride, they can’t get back out of the fat cell until the triglyceride is broken back down into glycerol and fatty acids.