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The majority of us start a diet, they go into it with the idea that they must keep fat intake down to a minimum, we have been led to believe fat equals obesity, well yes but only to a certain extent.
We have been told to fill up on plenty of complexed carbs, choosing low fat high carbohydrate foods. There are certain restrictions with this type of diet, one of these would be the fact that your body can and will convert unused carbs into fat.
Carbohydrate Metabolism
When you ingest carbohydrates, you body goes to work breaking them down, turning them into glucose, glucose is a sugar molecule that is converted into energy within your body's cells with the hormone insulin. The problem here is that after a meal based largely around carbohydrates, you will have a huge amount of excess glucose in your blood stream. This can be harmful to you over time so your body deals with it sweeping the glucose out of the blood and into the cells for energy, the extra glucose that doesnt get used or infact isnt needed then goes through the process of being converted.
The main thing with glucose is you only need a small amount of glucose at any one time. You already have your own self sufficient store of glucose which your body is continually manufacturing and replenishing which it stores in the muscles, brain and liver, its called glycogen.
So what happens with the excess glucose? It is converted into fat and stored for use at a later date and with our modern lifestyle food is everywhere, it never gets used. We eat another high carb meal and so more of it gets converted.
Fat metabolism.
In order to use up this excess fat reserve, we need to cut back on the carbs quite considerably to allow our body to use its fat stores, it does this with a system know as fat metabolism, in order for this to happen there must firstly be an absense of carbs. If you think this sounds crazy stop and think back to earlier times when pastas, pastrys and breads didnt exist, our main food intake was protein with maybe a few nuts and berries if they were available. So you see, our bodies can and do function without the presence of carbs.

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