To start off with, I do not have a degree in biology; so, please, forgive me if I seem ignorant on the complexities of how biological mechanisms in the human body work.

It seems to me, considering the modern diet of westerners in affluent countries, that, we fail to experience times of fasting, at least during waking hours. If we consider the conventional diet that consists of eating three meals a day which roughly coincide with the amount of time it takes for our stomachs to empty and, then, the five to six hours it takes to complete digestion, absorption, and assimillation, there appears to be no time during the day our cells are not being fed, extraneously. So, gluconeogenesis is a little used mechanism that only occurs, for most people, in the early hours of the morning before waking. This, of course, implicates those who consume a traditional western diet high in carbohydrates.

If this is true, it may be said, our blood serum levels of insulin are chronically elevated, giving a tendency towards adiposity. The question I have is, can chronically high blood serum levels of insulin create a condition in which our adipose tissue acquires an advantage over other tissues and organs leading to disease and atrophy?