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But, doesn't eating more fat make you fat?

But, doesn't eating more fat make you fat? Short time ago, the battle was waged against dietary fat and its supposed cause of heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol and the world’s ongoing obesity epidemic.Today, many foods advertise low-fat or fat-free alternatives, appealing to the belief that fat makes you fat. Of course, around here we can’t just accept this to be true without proper evidence. There’s no doubt that out of the three primary macronutrients we consume, fat is indeed the easiest to be stored as actual fat. The fat we consume are in the form of triglycerides, which is essentially identical to the fat we store in our bodies. It doesn’t take much effort to process dietary fat into our adipose tissue. Carbs and protein, on the other hand, have other priorities. Carbs are first used to produce energy and replete glycogen stores before being stored as fat. Proteins are used for protein synthesis and a slew of other metabolic purposes. It will hardly be used for prod