Fat: but why does your body store energy as fat?

The food you eat is converted to fat if you eat more than you need. It gets stored in your body inside fat cells. What you and I call excess weight.

But have you ever wondered why it is stored as fat?

The reason actually lies somewhere else. Your body prefers to store food as sugar. It stores about 100 grams’ worth in your liver and another 5 in your blood.

But sugar is not a stable form of energy. It has the unique property of attracting water. So if you have excessive sugar floating around in your body, it will suck up the water and bloat.

So you might ask, why can’t your liver simply store more glycogen? This is caused by physical constraints. To simplify, 100 grams of glycogen takes up almost 1/3 of your liver area.

You cant store more.

But your body is very clever. It has found an alternative way of storing the energy. In a form that is hygrophic. Hygrophopic is aversion to water.

I know when you have excess fat, it is extremely disheartening. But I promise you, without energy being stored as fat, you and I would not be alive.

Because fat cells are hygrophobic, they do not suck up the water that is in your body. So your body can continue to be approximately seventy percent water and yet not bloat up.

Or at least your fat cells will not bloat up.

That is why your body turned to fat to store energy. Both the amount you need and any excess that nature may provide.

Fat is not your enemy. It is an amazing form of stored energy. It just becomes problematic when you have more than you need. But that would be true of anything.

Too much water would be problematic.

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