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<blockquote data-quote="viviennem" data-source="post: 354180" data-attributes="member: 31282"><p>It depends on how you phrase the question. I'm no scientist, but I can see how I might agree that carbs aren't converted to fat - ie, not directly. However, the carbs are metabolised into glucose, and it is the excess glucose in the blood that is stored in the fat cells when the muscle/organ cells can't or won't take up any more glucose for energy. At least, that's how I understand it.</p><p></p><p>edit to add: If carbs don't get converted to fat, how come cattle, sheep and pigs are fed high grain diets to "finish" them to a sale weight?</p><p></p><p>It may well be that someone like me (like Sid, I can only speak from my personal experience) hasn't really been able to handle carbs from a very early age. I was diagnosed diabetic in 2010, age 60; this was an early diagnosis as my BG levels had been tested every six months for the previous 9 years. However, I have now been dieting for weight loss (with varied success) for 50 years, and had already realised that I did not lose weight on 1000 cals per day, when those cals were mainly carb, long before diabetes. But everyone still kept pushing "low fat high carb" at me, and calling me a liar, so I persevered - and became diabetic.</p><p></p><p>Maybe my weight-gain-from-carbs was an early indication of my propensity for becoming diabetic? even though my BG levels were perfectly "normal".</p><p></p><p>By the way, jacket potatoes are very good with just a sprinkle of salt. I learned that while I was low-fatting! 25 cals per oz of jacket potato - very important when you're on 1000 cals per day. Don't be afraid of a little salt. We need it - just not too much! I have a slight shake in my morning omelette and that's it. I don't add it in cooking, I wait to taste. I have lived up here for over 12 years and have only bought one drum of sea salt in all that time, so I don't eat it to excess.</p><p></p><p>Viv 8)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="viviennem, post: 354180, member: 31282"] It depends on how you phrase the question. I'm no scientist, but I can see how I might agree that carbs aren't converted to fat - ie, not directly. However, the carbs are metabolised into glucose, and it is the excess glucose in the blood that is stored in the fat cells when the muscle/organ cells can't or won't take up any more glucose for energy. At least, that's how I understand it. edit to add: If carbs don't get converted to fat, how come cattle, sheep and pigs are fed high grain diets to "finish" them to a sale weight? It may well be that someone like me (like Sid, I can only speak from my personal experience) hasn't really been able to handle carbs from a very early age. I was diagnosed diabetic in 2010, age 60; this was an early diagnosis as my BG levels had been tested every six months for the previous 9 years. However, I have now been dieting for weight loss (with varied success) for 50 years, and had already realised that I did not lose weight on 1000 cals per day, when those cals were mainly carb, long before diabetes. But everyone still kept pushing "low fat high carb" at me, and calling me a liar, so I persevered - and became diabetic. Maybe my weight-gain-from-carbs was an early indication of my propensity for becoming diabetic? even though my BG levels were perfectly "normal". By the way, jacket potatoes are very good with just a sprinkle of salt. I learned that while I was low-fatting! 25 cals per oz of jacket potato - very important when you're on 1000 cals per day. Don't be afraid of a little salt. We need it - just not too much! I have a slight shake in my morning omelette and that's it. I don't add it in cooking, I wait to taste. I have lived up here for over 12 years and have only bought one drum of sea salt in all that time, so I don't eat it to excess. Viv 8) [/QUOTE]
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