“Human triglycerides look exactly like olive oil, peanut oil and all other triglycerides we squeeze out of plant seeds,” says Ruben Meerman, author of “Big Fat Myths: When You Lose Weight, Where Does the Fat Go?” “It has the same yellowish color, the same energy density and the exact same chemical formula.”
Why do we need fat?
Fat is a convenient way to store a lot of energy in a small space. Chemically, the fat we eat (usually in the form of fatty acids) are chains of hydrogen and carbon attached to a sugar-alcohol molecule. The energy we get from fat—usually around nine calories per gram—comes from the way that our bodies break down the bonds that hold the chains together. Other sources of food, like carbohydrates and proteins, only contain about four calories per gram. When we gain weight, we store the extra lipids we don’t use in our fat cells, which make them grow in size. As we lose, we shrink these cells, but they never disappear.
It’s fascinating how we lose fat.
When your body turns to fat reserves to make up for a caloric deficit, the byproducts created by fat metabolism leave the body in very interesting ways:
As carbon dioxide, through the lungs when we breathe out.
As water, through our skin when we sweat.
As water, through our kidneys when we urinate.
So they had it part right when they encouraged us to sweat off the pounds. Your muscles will first burn through glycogen stores for energy. After about 30 minutes of consistent energy expenditure the body will turn to fat as an energy source, having depleted its glycogen reserves. Your adipose cells will also release key hormones such as estrogen as well as fat-soluble vitamins and organic pollutants during fat mobilization.
Our bodies are not designed to hold onto excess body fat and remain at optimum health. Our bodies do require a certain amount of fat stores but increased levels can greatly elevate your risk for heart disease and diabetes just to name a few.
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