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Sunday, October 11, 2009

How What You Eat Gets Turned To Body Fat

By Katherine Crawford M.S.

In order to avoid the dangers of low carbohydrate dieting, your weight loss strategy should definitely be centered around a balanced eating plan. After all, balance in nutrition will give you much more energy per quantity of food eaten.

Even on a balanced diet, however, you can still gain fat. Thus, it is critical for you to understand how different macronutrients get used and stored in your body.

Thus, here is how what you eat gets turned into body fat:

1. Sources of energy like carbohydrates. Every single carbohydrate that you consume has to be broken down into units of sugar. This is why you constantly hear how carbs increase blood sugar levels. Once the carbs are broken down, they get stored as either glycogen or fat.

2. Olive oil, nuts, spreads. All types of fat, they get broken down into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat that gets stored under your skin and gives you the flabby look is stored in the form of triglycerides. Make sure you do not skimp here, however, because substantial fat is needed to optimize your fat burning hormonal profile.

3. Protein. All protein is broken down to simpler units called amino acids. Once digested, these amino acids are reassembled and will form lean muscle tissue ONLY in a person who is exercising. Excess amino acids will have their nitrogen stripped away and will be burned as energy or stored as fat?

4. Alcoholic drinks. These will crush your fat loss efforts. Why? Because not only does alcohol get stored VERY easily as visceral (inside stomach) fat, but it also slows down your rate of fat loss. Not a good combination by any stretch of the imagination.

Your body has a limited capacity to store food as glycogen or muscle mass. So any excess here will get stored as body fat. I repeat: ANY excess gets stored as body fat.

Also, make sure you do not go overboard with protein just because it has a high thermic effect. Despite this, excess protein does get stored as body fat when too much is consumed. So no matter how you eat, a negative intake is necessary for rapid fat loss. - 17274

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