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What is wrong was the immediate jump from "Fat in organs is the fat we eat from food". It seemed a natural and simple explanation at the time. Now it appears i
by SCHiM 6y ago
What is wrong was the immediate jump from "Fat in organs is the fat we eat from food". It seemed a natural and simple explanation at the time.
Now it appears it's not that clear. It's the excess of sugar in everything that overloads your bodies temporary stores of glycogen in the muscles and liver, which is then stored as fat, since your body can easily transform sugars into fats.
To see how that looks you can track the obesity numbers in US, the more "0%!" fat products are propped up with suger over the years, the larger the obesity crowd.
I don't think the final word is out yet, but the _cause_ of fat in your body, is not necessarily the fat that you eat.
- PoachedSausage 6y agoDid people really believe that dietary fat was stored by the body without any kind of biological processing? If you examine it from a thermodynamic perspective (I know that is simplistic for human biology), weight for weight fat has double the energy density of sugar, 38 MJ/kg vs 17 MJ/kg according to [0]. For reference, gasoline and diesel fuel are around 45 - 48 MJ/kg. Also, according to [1], dietary fats are broken down to generate acetyl-CoA which is the precursor for lipogenesis (fat storage), therefore eating fat does not necessarily make you fat but consuming a lot of it and not metabolising it to do work will make it easier for you body to store fat. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Energy_storage [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Degradation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Degradation