Does Carbs Convert to FAT?

DOES CARBS CONVERT TO FAT?

Yes! and thats the one of the main ideas why people think eating rice can make you fat. Because rice is basically carbs and carbs can turn to fat. The other thing is insulin and how it inhibits fat oxidation or fat burn. This is a highly misunderstood side and some people just read and share it on the level of their understanding that might spread a greater confusion.

HOW MUCH CARBS CONVERTS TO FAT

DE NOVO LIPOGENESIS. Is the conversion of carbs to fat. In humans it is not very common. In "normal eating conditions", it only occurs on 2 scenarios. Constant Overeating/ overfeeding by 25% to 50% of your caloric intake and undereating dietary fats. To make it simple if youre eating on a normal caloric range and enough dietary fat, thinking about carbs converting to fat is not an issue at all. And even if it happens the rate of conversion mostly is only about 2%. So its a very small thing and not something to be super worried about.

MY TAKE

Glycogen can be stored in the muscle and the liver depending on the size of the person to about 100g to 500g. People should understand that what makes people fat is overconsumption of something. If you ate high carbs and low fat. Youll end up storing less fat but also be burning less fat. Your body would be burning more carbs in the process. While if you eat high fat and low carb, you store more fat but could also burn more fat.

The concern should be on the people who eat both on "high" amounts. High fat high carbs could lead to more fat storage, less fat burn and possible extra de novo lipogensis.

When we eat outside or at home. We often blame just "carbs" on why we gain unwanted weight. Because "carbs" is the more visble thing in the food most of the time. People eat "ulam and rice" and blame the rice kasi napadami without adressing the way the ulam was cooked. Madalas deep friend or mamantika. We eat burgers and just see the buns and not the fat from the patties. The donut as carbs and forget all the butter and other stuff added so it could be cooked(most of donuts are fried and not baked). There are a lot of foods we call as "carbs" but is also high in fat making it very calorie dense that could make us overconsume daily without knowing.

MY RECOMMENDATION

I used to be a fan of high carb low fat. Some are high fat low carb. Although its a preference thing and what diet you think your body is suited and can adjust your food depende sa target mong daily intake base sa macros mo.

But right now im very comfortable on eating moderate fat and moderate carbs. Im not that insufficient in both. Ang mahalga sa akin is i hit my target protein requirement. That is number one. Then my carbs doesnt have any computation. It depends on how i slowly add up weight until i reach a point where my body fat is optimal to muscle building and stop there for quite a long time unti i think i need to add up more. Not too low,not too high. While my fat intake also increases base on how my body responds. I just make sure my dietary fat is not going lower than 30%of my caloric intake and sometimes up it to 40%.

Again, not all unused calories just convert to fat. Like protein could still, but a very very very complicated pathway. With carbs a very small portion. And fat is already fat so it can be easily stored as fat. But too much calories from carbs makes you spare fat to be used as energy. So it simply means overall calories matters in fat gain and fat loss. More carbs more carbs used as energy, more fats then more fats to be used as energy. Insufficient energy stored then body fat would be used.

So to make it simple. Carbs can make you fat by burning less fat than what you store and not just by it directly converting to fat. The body balances the use of its energy sources so just eat carbs or fat depending on your liking. Choose one and eat thst way consistently to prevent sudden weight fluctuations.