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The Basics
High Fat Diets:
The
body stores excess fat calories mote readily than excess carbohydrate
calories. So, not only are high fat diets known to promote heart disease
and a variety of cancers, they will also put on those extra pounds more
readily.
However, this should not be misinterpreted nor misconstrued as a signal to
eat all the carbohydrates that you want. Why? Because an excess of any and
all nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fats) are stored as fat by the
body.
Here's How It Works:
If
you eat an extra 100 calories from carbohydrates, 23% of those calories
are burned to convert these calories into body fat; this represents the
storage of only 77 calories as body fat.
If
you eat an extra 100 calories of fat, it takes only 3% of the calories to
convert the calories to body fat so 97 calories are stored as fat. |
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