Is it true that sugar,carbs & sodium can make you fat?

Too much food will cause your body to store the excess energy as fat. Too much or too little sodium could put you in the hospital, but sodium has no calories.

Anything can make you fat if you eat too much of it.

(However, reducing sugar intake to actual recommended daily allowances -- which Americans and many Western countries commonly exceed by a great deal-- doesn't hurt... and (theoretically) may help reduce risks of developing Type II diabetes.)

Anything can make you fat if you eat too much of it.

(However, reducing sugar intake to actual recommended daily allowances -- which Americans and many Western countries commonly exceed by a great deal-- doesn't hurt... and (theoretically) may help reduce risks of developing Type II diabetes.)

water?

Umm..I'm sure you've heard of water weight. Right?

this cat is totally trolling....

totally.

Anything can make you fat if you eat too much of it.

(However, reducing sugar intake to actual recommended daily allowances -- which Americans and many Western countries commonly exceed by a great deal-- doesn't hurt... and (theoretically) may help reduce risks of developing Type II diabetes.)

water?

You got me. Water won't make you gain weight. Any other details you'd like to add, Sir Boner Fart?

This article might shed some light on your question:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Notable quote: "It is also undeniable, note students of Endocrinology 101, that mankind never evolved to eat a diet high in starches or sugars. ''Grain products and concentrated sugars were essentially absent from human nutrition until the invention of agriculture,'' Ludwig says, ''which was only 10,000 years ago.'' This is discussed frequently in the anthropology texts but is mostly absent from the obesity literature, with the prominent exception of the low-carbohydrate-diet books."



This is a scientific paper backing that article up:

http://ncp.sagepub.com/content/26/3/300.short

This article might shed some light on your question:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Notable quote: "It is also undeniable, note students of Endocrinology 101, that mankind never evolved to eat a diet high in starches or sugars. ''Grain products and concentrated sugars were essentially absent from human nutrition until the invention of agriculture,'' Ludwig says, ''which was only 10,000 years ago.'' This is discussed frequently in the anthropology texts but is mostly absent from the obesity literature, with the prominent exception of the low-carbohydrate-diet books."

That's silly. People were eating tubers and honey before the invention of agriculture.

People were eating tubers and honey before the invention of agriculture.

Unless they lived in the Americas, where humans domesticated edible potatoes from normally deadly night shades +/-7,000 years ago (give a hand to the native Peruvians and the Bolivians. Modern researchers still aren't certain how they did it), people had to wait to make french fries until post-Columbian exchange...

(Poor Europeans. They had to wait for post-Columbus explorers to run into the Incas in order to bring those things back. Even then there were French people starving to death prior to the French Revolution partially due to their culture's reluctance to adopt those 'foreign' potatoes as a staple crop. Of course, they also didn't have chocolate(!) until post Columbian exchange, so their lack of potatoes (and corn, which was also human engineered by native Americans) was the lesser deprivation for the poor deprived European souls... (Heck, until post Columbian exchange, they didn't even have vanilla!)

That's silly. People were eating tubers and honey before the invention of agriculture.

I was thinking the same thing ..what about fruit and other naturally occurring sugars...??

Yeah, fruit too. This is where I think the paleo crowd gets it wrong. I believe in paleo times the diet was mostly vegetarian, heavy on starches like potato, sunchoke, yams, etc, as well as sugars from fruit. I believe meat was a rarity since y'know .. it's harder to catch a gazelle than a potato. I suspect much of their protein intake was insect based as well.

There's no such thing as a "pre-agriculture" edible potato (actual yams aren't the same species and are not actually potatoes, so they have a different history).

Anyway, all forms of edible potato trace back to a single species of night shade that was created through domestication by humans in the Andes mountains somewhere around 7,000 years ago. Modern researchers aren't entirely sure how the native Peruvians and Bolivians did it (then again, researchers also aren't entirely sure how the native North Americans created edible corn of any appealing size from a native grass, just that they did do it) But until they did it, wild potatoes were lethal.

OP:
How many threads are you going to start today asking similar questions?

That's silly. People were eating tubers and honey before the invention of agriculture.

I was thinking the same thing ..what about fruit and other naturally occurring sugars...??

Yeah, fruit too. This is where I think the paleo crowd gets it wrong. I believe in paleo times the diet was mostly vegetarian, heavy on starches like potato, sunchoke, yams, etc, as well as sugars from fruit. I believe meat was a rarity since y'know .. it's harder to catch a gazelle than a potato. I suspect much of their protein intake was insect based as well.

There's no such thing as a "pre-agriculture" edible potato (actual yams aren't the same species and are not actually potatoes, so they have a different history).

Anyway, all forms of edible potato trace back to a single species of night shade that was created through domestication by humans in the Andes mountains somewhere around 7,000 years ago. Modern researchers aren't entirely sure how the native Peruvians and Bolivians did it (then again, researchers also aren't entirely sure how the native North Americans created edible corn of any appealing size from a native grass, just that they did do it) But until they did it, wild potatoes were lethal.

What about turnips? Rutabega? Yuca? Ginger? Lots of other tuberous vegetables besides the potato.

Is it true that sugar,carbs & sodium can make you fat?

It seems to be a consistent theme where highly processed foods and quite a bit of fast food is concerned with nutritional food scientists employed to find out just how much of each won't make a person gag, but want more.

Excess calories make you fat. Consume more than you expend.

BoOM, there you go right there.....obesity epidemic solved.

Anyone wanting to read a very different point of view which has been touched on by bringing up "Endocrinology 101" should read the book Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes. A very interesting read which completely disputes the idea of calories in-calories out...