Liver Fat

First of all the thing you need to concentrate about is WHAT YOU EAT. You have to eat a balanced diet. That doesnt mean eating crisps and chocalate everyday and a tangerine once a week.

You should cut down the amount of fats you eat. Carbohydrates gives you energy which is quickly burned when doing exercise.

Vitamin C prevents your teeth from getting a disease called scurvy. Oranges, tangerines and apples are examples of these foods. Vitamin A is good for your eyes seeing things in the night. Carrots give you a vitamin A. Bran flakes is an example of roughage (fibre) which is essential in keeping your intestines working smoothly.

Proteins are important for growth and repair. To get this you eat meat, eggs or fish.

And the thing which you should really be drinking the most, instead of soft sugary drinks, is WATER. 75% of your body is water and all chemical reactions, e.g. digestion, need water.

Another important thing is exercise and sport. You’ve got to do enough exercise to burn all the fat and carbohydrates. The three activities which are best at burning fat are running, swimming and cycling. Especially swimming. It uses all the muscles in the body. The problem nowadays is cars. Nearly every place we go, including the corner shop down the next road, is gone by car.

The thing which wrecks your life up is smoking and alcohol. If you want a healthier life, this will have to STOP. If you smoke everyday, you’ll probably live to a ripe old age of 50.

To conclude, eat healthily, exercise everyday, dont spend long hours in front of the TV or computer, dont smoke or drink, have enough sleep and have a snack now and then.

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Have you wondered what exactly the process of gaining fat is? If “yes”, then keep reading.

There are two main reasons for getting fat:

* Consuming calories in excess

* Consuming high-glycemic carbohydrates

Calories in excess can come from fats, carbohydrates and proteins. The human body has two ways of getting fats into the blood stream. Here is how that happens and how the actual process of storing fat occurs.

The first way: Dietary fats pass through the lining of the intestines in the form of chylomicrons (long chain fatty acids) and are subsequently converted to triglycerides. This is the main form, in which they travel in the blood stream.

If the fats are in excess they are readily stored in the fat cells. The process is called lipogenesis.

The second way: Fats are also manufactured in the liver in the form of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and again are converted to triglycerides.

The liver has the ability to convert carbohydrates and proteins to fats as well, if they are eaten in excess and the body doesn’t need so much of them for recovery and tissue repair.

The chylomicrons (fats, coming from the intestines) and the lipoproteins (the fats, made in the liver) have the ability to stimulate the synthesis of Lipoprotein Lipase (LPL). LPL is an enzyme, manufactured in the fat cells, for the conversion of the triglycerides to free fatty acids and glycerol.

Fats can enter the adipocites (fat cells) only in the form of free fatty acids.

Once inside the fat cell the free fatty acids need glycerol to be converted back into triglycerides (re-esterification), in which state they are stored.

Here is where insulin comes to play. Insulin, other than lowering the blood sugar levels, acts also as a stimulus for the fat cells to produce more LPL. It also decreases the ability of the fat cells to give out the fat, stored in them.

Another property of insulin is to carry glucose over to the fat cells. This glucose is the main source of glycerol for the conversion of the free fatty acids to triglycerides.

And yet another role of insulin in the body is to facilitate the conversion of carbohydrates to fat in the liver through the activation of enzymes, needed for this process.

In other words insulin is a main contributor for the process of storing adipose tissue (fat).

Why the consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates makes us fat? Because it stimulates the release of larger quantities of insulin for a short period of time.

Conclusion: In order to prevent all of the above from happening we must:

1. Ingest total daily calories at or below maintenance level in order to avoid the conversion of carbohydrates and proteins to fat, as well as the introduction of large amounts of triglycerides from dietary fats in the blood stream.

2. Eat lower-glycemic carbohydrates and eat them in moderation in order to avoid spiking the insulin levels.

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