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Old Tue, Mar-16-10, 11:48
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Something happens to the fat you eat, other than getting excreted. If you were just passing it through, you'd have symptoms like taking Alli, pleasant things like fecal incontinence... i.e. pooping your pants, or "brown outs" as we called them in my family. You know, you think you farted but got a little something extra. My apologies to the squeamish!

So it requires insulin to store fat but as far as I know, there's always insulin around, you'd probably die if you had no insulin, and we can take type 1 diabetics for telling us about that. But what if you don't have lots of insulin?

Fat has to be converted to triglycerides to be burned. But so do carbs. I suppose the biggest difference is that there's loads of insulin around when you eat carbs.
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