It has been noticed that most of the times it is not excess eating that makes a person fat; it is eating without the knowledge of the nutritional value of food and its implication of the same on your body. The common belief that the fat would make you grow hefty is not incorrect but then that doesn’t men that the other nutritional components are not contributing to the increase in the weight.
People while picking food from the shelves would look at the nutritional facts mostly around the “fats” content in the product and if it is low they feel safe to consume it. But, that is not keeping you away from adding on extra kg. The reason is that the carbohydrates content in it would mislead the calculation. Such foods are usually high in carbs. What do carbohydrates do when there is excess than required; it gets converted to fats, which then adds to the figures of the weighing machine when you check your weight. The carbs could be understood as the long pearl string, these are called a complex carbohydrate that needs to be broken into smaller units to produce energy. The energy is also called as the ATP. We need ATP to function. But the excess of the broken units of carbs are stored in the liver. The liver could only accommodate a small amount and hence the rest gets converted to fats. Clearly, what do carbohydrates do is no different from what fat does to our body. The only difference is that one does it silently and the other explicitly.
