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Does Eating Fat Make You Fat?

Does Eating Fat Make You Fat?

  • April 10, 2013 9:50 pm
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That eating fat makes you fat seems quite logical on the surface, but it isn’t so. Eating too much is what makes you fat, no matter what you eat.

Eating Fat Won’t Make You Fat

Most of us fighting a weight problem involuntarily learn that the human body is capable of building huge amounts of energy reserves.

Which is the nice way of saying that your body is able to store a just about endless amount of energy in the form of fat.

Knowing that, it seems quite obvious to assume that if fat on the body is what makes you fat, then eating fat should take a beeline straight to your buttocks, belly and thighs. Not really:

Low Carb Etc.

Low carb diets (Atkins etc.) are a good example for this. Because they emphasize fat so much and limit other nutrients, I’m rather critical of them, but it’sĀ  the same principle and people do lose weight on those.

In the end it always comes down to managing energy input vs. energy output. Fat simply is the body’s way to store energy and, despite carbohydrates and protein taking a detour to be stored as such, to the body it makes not much of a difference where the calorie surplus comes from.

Picture courtesy of Arnold Gatilao.

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6 Comments

  1. Kim says:
    April 10, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Then all those years when I said – I’ll eat the fries and just add a few miles to my run – I wasn’t completely off base! Except, the fries probably needed more than a few miles!

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    • evilcyber says:
      April 11, 2013 at 5:15 pm

      Yes, exactly. But, just as you said, it is hard to keep the calories under control with energy-dense foods.

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  2. Dr. J says:
    April 11, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    You mean a moment of fat on our lips is not a lifetime of fat on our hips? lol!

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    • evilcyber says:
      April 13, 2013 at 7:42 pm

      There is a poet lost on you! šŸ˜‰

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  3. Jess says:
    April 12, 2013 at 12:12 am

    I used to eat completely non-fat diet (or as close as I could get) when I was a dancer. My teacher told us we had to keep under 20grams a day. Ironically maintaining my weight was so much harder than it is now when I really don’t worry about “fat” directly. Fats are good for your skin and your hair, I swear!

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    • evilcyber says:
      April 13, 2013 at 7:45 pm

      Absolutely! Fat does fulfill an important role in the body. Cutting it out completely is as futile as overindulging.

      Or, as we say in Germany, it’s the dosage that makes the poison šŸ™‚

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