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Excess Saccharides become fat! In short...
So obesity is the You've eaten too
result of a significant much and stored
breakdown of the too much fat.
metabolic homeostatic*
balance.
It's a result
of fat being
excessively
accumulated.
* Homeostasis is the mechanism in which substances are continually exchanged
with the outside world to keep an internal environment unchanged.
Now let's study the hapWpheanted?!
biochemical processes
that are involved...
...when fat
accumulates!
There are two main (1) when and (2) when
ways that fat is ingested lipids saccharides
accumulated. are converted
are directly
accumulated to fat.
as fat...
saccharide
Lipid saccharide Lipid Ew
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