My point is this: sometimes it's beneficial to answer a question without writing a novel. On a broad level, it is a better thing to be insulin sensitive than insulin insensitive, and you'll find that generalization made in a great many places. Obviously the *long* answer to most questions are, "Well, it depends..."
I mean, I could say that weight training is good, but if I took your approach I'd say, "Well, it's not always good. Sometimes it's bad. What if you're injured? Weight lifting might injure you further or slow your recovery. But that of course depends what kind of injury you have. You could have a shoulder injury or a cut on your hand. Or maybe you have a cut on your shoulder? In one case, weight lifting is good in the other it's bad. Or what if you're not injured at all but you do too much weight lifting and cause yourself injury? Or weight lift but do it in an imbalanced way and set yourself up for future injury?"
At some point, you just have to say you know what? Weight training is good the majority of the time, so it can therefore be labeled "good" unless you want to write your doctorate thesis on it.
Fact is, the information you posted basically says that general insulin insensitivity is not a particularly good thing except it can help you lose fat, once you've abused your body so badly it has become insulin insensitive in the first place. I understand what the author was trying to say but for god's sake it's like saying it's good to be obese because then you can lose 4lbs of pure fat a week instead of just 2lbs max.
But I thank you for posting what you did. I personally learned a few new things. But please don't accusing me of "throwing" around terms.
And yes obviously you would not want to starve yourself all day and then eat during your post-workout. I figured that went unsaid.
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