Sugar turning into fat

no

Nope.

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.

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helenrosec0 wrote: »

Depends on what type of sugar

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

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.

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

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

Common misconceptions usually do.

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

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 wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

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

KITTEN! You beat me to it!

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

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

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.

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

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

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.

Carlos_421 wrote: »

helenrosec0 wrote: »

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

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

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