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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mpe" data-source="post: 404604" data-attributes="member: 60109">In which case you would be eating "too much" in the first place. Excess glucose is converted to fat in either the liver or fat cells. In either case insulin is required.Whereas excess fructose and galactose appear to be converted to fat entirely by the liver, often as soon as it enters the liver through the hepatic portal vein. The liver being entirely responsible for regulation of these two sugars in the blood.Fat produced in the liver enters the blood in VLDL (along with some cholesterol). Thus if the liver is converting a lot of sugar to fat both total cholesterol and "tri-glycerides" will increase. The level of VLDL does not itself appear to do much to the levels of LDL or HDL (hardly anyone appears to bother testing for IDL). But would affect ratios. The human body needs to the concentration of water soluble compounds in the blood to be tighly regulated. Lipoprotein particles are similar to living cells. With the number in the blood being able to vary over a wide range without any effect on plasma chemistry.</blockquote>

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