If you’ve ever been on a diet then you know that calorie counting is often a part of the process. If you counted every calorie but still didn’t lose as much weight as you wanted, it might be because not all calories are equal.
Recent studies show that calories from fat produce the most weight and fat gain, and calories from excess carbohydrates run a close second. The reason is that the body doesn’t need to burn any calories to use fat. When you eat fat, it gets stored as fat right away. As they say, a bite of ice cream is “a second on the lips, an eternity on the hips.”
Excess carbohydrates also present a problem. When you eat more carbohydrates than your body can easily digest, it converts those carbs to fat for easy storage. Calories from fiber and protein are less likely to be stored as fat since the body simply eliminates any fiber or protein it can’t digest. Plus, the body burns calories as it digests fiber and protein.
So the next time you’re counting calories and thinking about substituting ice cream for an equal calorie low fat dessert, think again. Fat calories become fat in your body. Reach for something healthy instead.
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