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How What You Eat Gets Turned To Body Fat

Posted by Katherine Crawford M.S. in Weight loss on 10 16th, 2009 | no responses

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 if you have the most balanced diet, however, fat storage can still take place. So it will be good for you to understand how different macro nutrients get processed in your body once consumed.

So without further delay, here is how nutrients get stored as fat in your body:

1. Bread, pasta, cereal. All types of carbohydrates, these foods well eventually be broken down into molecules of sugar before entering your blood stream. From there, they will be stored as glycogen and once glycogen levels are full, as 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. Steak, fish, poultry. All types of protein, they get broken down into amino acids. These amino acids will then be reconfigured into muscle. But there is a catch: you have to exercise in order for this to happen!

4. Spirits. By spirits I mean alcohol! The Achilles heel of any fat loss hopeful. Why? Because not only does alcohol slow down the rate at which you can burn body fat, but it also gets stored as fat in between your organs. And this is the worst type of fat.

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, please do NOT think you can go all out with protein just because some experts tout its thermic effect. Why? Because even too much protein WILL be stored as body fat, no exceptions here. And please restrict that alcohol intake!

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