Obviously, if you eat too much of the fat making substances, you will gain fat, but again, slowly.
3. However, if you eat too little of the foods the body needs (lean proteins and complex carbohydrates), you empty your reserves, and start to cannibalize muscle, which puts you in a chemical fat making mode. The only time your body makes fat rapidly is when it thinks it's starving that there is a famine!
I CAN GAIN FAT FROM EATING TOO LITTLE?
Yes, if you under eat the things the body needs. Many people have put themselves in this "starvation mode" and never fully get out of it.
How? Why?
When you understand how food is used in the body, it really is easy to understand. Our society thinks, "I eat food, I use what I need, and then I store the rest as fat." But that's not how it really happens. When we eat, the food is broken down into protein, carbohydrate or fat.
Protein is used to build the cells of the body.
Carbohydrate is used for brain and nerve function, and the initial stages of all muscle motion. |
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Fat is not the trash, or a reserve of energy, as it is usually explained to us. At rest, other than the little carbohydrate used to fuel the brain and nerves, all the fuel the body uses is fat. Fat is the preferred, the primary fuel for every cell of the body except the brain and nerves.
Fat is actually the stuff that keeps us alive. It's the good stuff, not the bad stuff! What do I mean, keeps us alive? Picture every cell as being a little furnace, and in that furnace you have a pilot light. Lit is alive, out is dead. The pilot light in our body uses nothing but fat, so naturally the body tries to make more of the stuff that keeps it alive if it thinks life is threatened by a lack of food, a famine (or diet?). It only takes a few ounces of fat to keep you alive for an entire day, so we don't need a lot of stored fat to stay alive, unless the body thinks it has to get ready for a famine.
Nobody likes having unwanted fat, and it becomes real frustrating when they can't diet it off like they used to. But, once you realize the body thinks it needs fat if it perceives a lack of food, a famine, then it becomes clear that trying to lose weight by cutting back on good food or |
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dieting is what causes the fat. The more you diet, the more fat you'll have.
Why? How did this come about?
Throughout time, tens of thousands of years, the one thing that threatened life more than anything else was a lack of food. Humans had harvest time, famine time, harvest time, famine time, and on and on. Who survived the famines best? Those who made fat the best. Without much food, they may not have had much energy to move or think (or they would burn up muscle), but they needed fat to keep the cells alive and functioning. And who had offspring? Those that lived! And who lived? Those who could make fat the best, and they passed it on, generation after generation. The resulting genetic program that makes it possible to survive famines is probably the strongest genetic program we have! But, we don't have famines unless we have bad eating habits, or go on a diet.
How does it happen?
Without adequate protein and carbohydrate, the body has to find another source of fuel. It can't use fat for carbohydrate, so it uses protein. The only storage of protein is muscle, so the body breaks down muscle for fuel. |
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