Sugar turning into fat

incisron · May 2016

Is it true that you can only eat s certain percentage of sugar a day and that if you eat more than that, your body will turn it into fat? Even if you're within your calories?

singingflutelady · May 2016

no

randomtai · May 2016

Sugar does not turn to fat.

ridge4mfp · May 2016

Nope.

LazSommer · May 2016

No, but excess calories do.

cwolfman13 · May 2016

No, energy (calories) in excess of what you expend, regardless of the source are stored as fat. You have certain energy requisites to function, go about you day to day, and exercise...when you consume more energy than your body requires to do these things, that excess energy is stored for later use. When you consume less energy than your body requires to do all of those things you burn stored energy (fat) to make up for the energy deficiency.

ReaderGirl3 · May 2016

Nope. Eating over your maintenance level calories does that.

Carlos_421 · May 2016

newp

fr33sia12 · May 2016

Depends on what type of sugar

http://www.livestrong.com/article/408673-does-sugar-turn-into-fat/

MissusMoon · May 2016

That article is full of spurious information and sources. One source is some random naturepath. Most are single source theories with little to back it up. The article does have a bit of good info for diabetics, perhaps.

Excess calories turn into fat.

stevencloser · May 2016

I've only read the part about "this sugar is turned to fat more than others" and it was full on false from start to finish.

fr33sia12 · May 2016

Well I googled "Does sugar turn into fat" there's alot more articles all saying it does, can't all be false.

singingflutelady · May 2016

Yes they can.

randomtai · May 2016

Common misconceptions usually do.

janejellyroll · May 2016

I googled "Is Hillary Clinton a lizard person?" and got a lot of articles saying she is. Is that our new standard of truth?

pcpop7 · May 2016

You know somebody as dumb as me can even write an article right ?

upoffthemat · May 2016

Ok, just on a whim I decided to google something totally ridiculous to see what would come up. So I googled "Hitler was female" (No idea what made this come to mind)

Got to love the internet, there are a bunch of articles and "studies" trying to prove just that.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. What other ridiculous searches can you make?

MissusMoon · May 2016

And did you look at the content and actual science cited in those articles? That's how you decide if something is true or not. There are a lot of conspiracies on the internet, including our planet is ruled by lizard people. There are a lot of google hits for that, too. Is it true?

Here is primer: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/09/john_oliver_explains_how_reported_scientific_studies_can_be_misleading_and.html

MissusMoon · May 2016

KITTEN! You beat me to it!

janejellyroll · May 2016

It's one of my all-time favorite conspiracy theories.

pcpop7 · May 2016

Is that not one of David ikes theories ?

janjunie · May 2016

Everyone has an agenda, you can find articles online saying anything that makes you feel like your belief about how to eat is right. Pro HCLF will advocate a vegetarian or vegan diet and give examples of why they are right. Pro LCHF will say carbs are the devil and you can't lose weight eating more than 100 grams of carbs a day...pft. For the average person it's all about calories, plain and simple.

janejellyroll · May 2016

It is! I read several of his books in college, they were amazingly entertaining. Kids today can get all their conspiracy for free on the internet. Lucky devils.

pcpop7 · May 2016

Wait. If it's written in a book it might not be true either ?

There is a great book by Ben Goldacre called Bad Science which is great at looking at some crazy studies. He also has a good website badscience.net which exposes this bad science nonsense

Carlos_421 · May 2016

I googled "Is chupacabra real?" and got similar results.

lemurcat12 · May 2016

It's a misunderstanding.

As I interpret OP's question, he or she is concerned about whether fat will be gained even in a calorie deficit if too much sugar is eaten as a percentage of calories (or some such). It won't.

This is a very oversimplified explanation:

(1) Our bodies run on a combination of glucose and fat. A higher percentage of fat is burned, usually, when we are more sedentary (for example, during sleep, although plenty can be burned during daily activities too). A higher percentage of glucose is burned during more intense activity. What you eat affects what is burned (i.e., if you eat more fat you burn more fat, if you eat more carbs, you burn more glucose, since your body burns what is available).

(2) If we have more glucose than we need at a particular point in time, it is stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver for easy access later (insulin does this, among other things, like getting protein to the muscles). This is helpful for intense activity, as this is the most accessible fuel (vs. fat). That's why people talk about fat burning exercises being lower intensity (although this also doesn't matter for weight loss).

(3) If glycogen stores are full, glucose will be stored as fat.

(4) If you are at a deficit, you likely will not have full glycogen stores (as you are burning more fuel than you are taking in). Thus, it is less likely that you will store glucose as fat.

(5) In any case, if you are at a deficit, you are burning more fuel than you are taking in -- thus, the amount of glucose + fat that you burn will necessarily exceed what you take in and you will lose fat. Therefore, if fat WERE added, it wouldn't matter, as later in the same general time period more would be lost. This is what the article is misleading about (among other things).

Significantly, the type of fuel you take in does not matter except to the extent it affects how much you burn (which seems to vary only a little -- i.e., protein has a somewhat higher calorie burn to be digested) or how active/energetic you are (which you can access). If you take in less than you burn you CANNOT add net fat.

lemurcat12 · May 2016

Apparently Hitler was also Angela Merkel's dad. That's a big one on the internet. She claims to have been born 9 years after he died, but probably she and Obama have the same fake birth certificate source.

pcpop7 · May 2016

I have to google 'what is chupacabra'. Scared now and hoping it is not real.

MissusMoon · May 2016

I love you guys.

Alluminati · May 2016

She's right. I'm like butter.

mostein · May 2016

Do I dare to even weigh in on another sugar forum topic...

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