Do calories cause fat

Answer 1

YES - eating 3,500 calories equals one pound of weight. So, if you consume high amounts of calories and do not exercise to aid in burning the calories off - you can get fat by gaining pounds off the the high calorie food you eat.

Answer 2

Calories are the total amount of calories in a food. Calories from fat are the amount of calories that come from the grams of fat contained in the food. Each gram of fat contains 9 calories, while each gram of carbohydrates or protein contains 4 calories. So, for example, a portion of food containing one gram of fat, two grams of protein, and zero carbohydrates, would have 17 total calories, and 9 of those calories are calories from fat.
In the absolute sense, no difference exists between calories and fat calories. A calorie of fat and a calorie of something else has the same amount of energy. If burned, they will both produce the same amount of heat. However, your body uses various substances in different ways. You need a little fat to repair cells and produce new ones. Your body burns fat. However, if you get excess fat, you store it in fat cells. If you get a lot of excess fat, it clogs your arteries. Your body uses the calories from carbohydrates for fuel before it burns fat. As a result, if you overeat, you simply put on more fat. When you walk fast or run, your body starts burning fat rather than call on your liver to overload your system with stored carbohydrates. An important difference is that a calorie of fat takes up a lot less space. You could picture a small maid called carbohydrate going about working making stuff move. Then suddenly a whole lot of heavy solid stuff has to be cleared out of the way. She calls on this great big bruiser called fat and he uses his great strength to move it out of the way. The carbohydrate goes back to work. The only problem with the analogy is that both carbohydrate and fat are burned up in the process!

Answer 3

They aren't different. A calorie is a calorie, whether it's from fat, protein or carbohydrates.

What calories from fat is trying to tell you is how much fat is in the food and how if that fat wasn't there, the amount of calories that would no longer be there.

Hence, one gram of protein or carbohydrate is equivalent to 4 calories. However, one gram of fat is equivalent to 9 calories.

Therefore, if a rasher of bacon contained 80 calories and had 45 calories from fat, you would know that trimming off the 5g of fat (45/9), would result in the rasher of bacon only containing 35 calories (80-45).

Answer 4

No

Answer 5

no