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"If you eat more energy than you use you may not gain weight" The normal body will convert excessive energy to fat, so if you intake more energy than you use y
by amix 17y ago
"If you eat more energy than you use you may not gain weight"
The normal body will convert excessive energy to fat, so if you intake more energy than you use you will gain fat. Care to explain your case?
"if you eat less energy than you use you may lose weight but gain fat at the expense of muscle and other tissues"
I didn't claim a person eating less will only lose fat.
- jodrellblank 17y agoThe normal body will convert excessive energy to fat, so if you intake more energy than you use you will gain fat. Care to explain your case? IANA(Biologist), and I can't remember the details of what I was reading about it, but it's not like filling a bath and if you put too much in the rest goes through the overflow and into your fat cells. Leptin signals fat cells to store energy as fat, and if it doesn't do that then you wont get fatter. Where else could it go? Maybe you take in more energy and become more active to use it up? Maybe it goes straight through you - is sensed and less is digested, or is taken into the blood stream, then filtered out again. Maybe some of it is used in rebuilding and repair that wouldn't have happened otherwise. I don't, for instance, binge on 3500 calories extra of junk food in a day and put on 1lb of fat that same day (I don't think).
- likpok 17y agoThere are ways the body can burn though extra calories. You can become restless and agitated; it can activate brown fat; etc.