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Re:Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar? by QuantumAphid on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:42PM (#13990380)
This. Sugar and simple or highly processed carbs cause your body to release insulin in order to regulate blood sugar. Insulin switches off any fat burning and tells the body to store fat.

Whenever your diet consists of carbs and fat nutrients, the fat is going to be immediately stored in your fatty tissues, and any excess carbs that you can't burn quickly will go there also.

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Re:Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar? by omgwtfutoo on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:09PM (#13997573)
Nope, totally wrong. Sugar does NOT easily metabolized into fat in humans. It does in animals, which is why we feed them lots of carbs. Please learn how de novo lipogenesis works in humans, because you're just repeating a falsehood now. The sugar doesn't get stored, but it does keep fat from being burned, hence the false blame.
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