Sentences with phrase «converting stored body»

On the other hand, if you do the opposite and give your body less calories than it needs, your body will convert your stored body fat into energy and use that instead.

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Without the presence of fiber, the body does not use sugar as an energy source but instead stores sugar and converts it to fat.

Coconuts are loaded with lauric acid, a medium - chain fatty acid that, once it gets into your body, is converted into monolaurin, which is easily digestible and can be used as a source of direct energy instead of being stored in the body as fat.

2) Increases Energy: Coconut oil is primarily made up of medium - chain fatty acids that the body can easily convert to energy instead of storing as fat.

Instead of storing as fat the liver converts them directly to ketone bodies which are then available for use as energy.

Typical diets convert carbs -LCB- sugars -RCB- into glucose and if these levels become too high, extra calories are much more easily stored as body fat which results in unwanted weight gain.

The brainchild of Bob MacLeod and Steve Byckiewicz, two long time vegetarians searching for healthy body care alternatives, Kiss My Face was founded in 1981 on a 200 acre organic farm in New York's beautiful Hudson River Valley and has been operating out of a converted barn and feed store ever since.

Thyroid hormones are crucial for the regulation of metabolism, which is how the body converts food into energy or stores it.

Gene expression is the process where information stored as DNA is converted (transcribed) by enzymes into related molecules called RNAs, and then into proteins that make up the body's structures and signals.

However, both of these are stored in the liver and can be converted to body fat.

Dietary fat is converted more readily to body fat than is carbohydrate or protein and is the easiest to store in the body, say scientists.

This means that insulin will chemically convert the unused glucose into fatty acids and have it stored in the fat deposits anywhere on your body and thrown onto layers of fat which are already there.

«As insulin is one of our primary fat storage hormones, it will firstly convert unused glucose from your blood into glycogen and store it in your muscles, but what is left over will be converted into body fat,» Weaver explains.

It also converts T4 into reverse T3 (RT3), a form your body can't use that just makes you tired and stores fat like crazy.

The magic happens in your liver, it converts this new steady supply of dietary fats into ketones to fuel your body and brain and in the process, your liver accesses your stored body fat and burns that as well.

Within a few weeks, the body should be fairly efficient at converting protein and fat for the liver's glycogen stores, which provide all the glucose we need for the brain, red blood cells, muscles, etc. under regular circumstances.

You don't have to worry about getting too much vitamin A from plant - sources, as beta - carotene will not be converted to the active vitamin if there are already enough stores in the body.

When proper metabolic actions are in place, the food that has been consumed can be converted to ready to use fuel to power the body rather than fat that will be stored away for future use.

While it is true that HGH helps lose weight by improving metabolic functions so that the body can convert food to fuel rather than fat and start to burn some of the excess fat that has already been stored inside cells, the majority of overweight people will only see a decline of about 10 % of their excess body fat during 6 months of treatment with HGH therapy.

If more protein is consumed than the body needs to build or repair body tissues or to provide energy they are converted by the body into fat and stored for later use.

While we can't store excess protein, our bodies can convert protein to other fuels like glucose — in a process known as «neoglucogenesis» — to be used as fuel.

This means bagels break down very quickly when you eat them, convert to sugar in your body and are more readily stored as fat, notes dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot on the Fox News website.

Even though carbs are rarely converted directly to fat (a process called de novo lipogenesis, or «DNL»), they do cause you to store proportionally more body fat.15

This is also why you don't starve to death when you restrict food for weeks at a time, because your body is able to convert stored fat into ketones that are used as fuel instead of glucose.

Obesity causes testosterone levels to drop, as enzymes in the stored body fat actually convert testosterone to estrogen.

To get into ketosis you have to deplete your liver glycogen stores so that the liver could start converting your body fat into ketones.

More glucose than what the body needs for energy or glycogen is converted to triglycerides in the liver and stored as a more permanent energy storage compound — body fat.

Additionally, any excess carbohydrates that the body doesn't immediately use for energy is converted to fat to be stored for future energy.

Coconut and coconut oil are great sources of medium chain triglycerides, a fat that converts quickly into energy, as it is used quickly, it is less likely to be stored as body fat.

Obesity occurs when the excess calories we consume are stored in different parts of the body, unable to convert into energy for a longer period of time.

Your liver then responds by converting stored fatty acids into ketone bodies, to be used as an emergency backup fuel to keep your brain happy.

Metabolic Rate — The rate you convert energy stores into working energy in your body.

Unrefined (preferably organic) coconut oil contains medium - chain triglycerides (MCTs) that are very easy to digest for quick - release energy that's difficult for your body to convert to stored fat.

The liver begins to convert fat — both the fat you eat and the body fat you store — into molecules called ketones.

It has a low glycemic index, primarily because it is stored in the liver and converted slowly to glucose to be released into the blood stream and used by the body.

It's when you eat too many carbs that insulin is released and those carbs are converted to fat to be stored in your body.

The hormones go right to work, increasing the metabolism of the cells, enhancing the immune system, suppressing the stress hormone cortisol (which stops the body from converting food to energy, and instead uses it to store fat).

But we've known for a very long time now that the main source of stored fat in your body comes from carbohydrates that are converted to fat in your liver with the help of the hormone insulin.

In a case of already insulin resistant both peripheral tissues & fat tissue 3 things will will happen prior to triglycerides reaching an elevated level in the bloodstream 1) It starts with peripheral tissues — since it is IR it will not absorb glucose and glucose will remain in the bloodstream leading to elevated glucose blood levels 2) Body will recognise elevated glucose levels and immediately will send excess glucose to liver, thinking that once this excess glucose will get converted into triglycerides it will then be stored in adipose tissue.

Amongst many other important functions, such as the metabolism of fats, protein and carbs and storing glucose for energy, vitamins and minerals, the liver also helps to break down and convert toxins into non-harmful substances that your body can then filter out.

Although consuming fat - reduced items can help lower cholesterol, it can also cause levels of a blood lipid called triglyceride to soar, since the body converts the extra calories from sugar into fat, which is stored by the body and can cling to artery walls, increasing risk of heart attack and stroke.

If the body doesn't use up this stored glycogen, the liver converts it into fat to make room for new glycogen.

Your liver begins to convert the fat stored in your body into fatty acids and ketone bodies, these ketone bodies then replace glucose as the bodies energy source.

One of the substances that carbs are converted to in the body is glycogen, which is stored in the muscles and liver and is the primary source of fuel during intense exercise like weightlifting and high - intensity interval training.

By limiting your carb intake and exercising, you will kick - start your ketosis and help to ensure that your body is ready to convert fat into energy, instead of storing it as glucose, which turns to extra fat in excess quantities.

And then, because there is so much insulin in your bloodstream, your body stores too much sugar (which it converts to fat) and the glucose levels in your blood drop too low.

In a normal diet that contains high amounts of carbohydrate, the body converts carbs into glucose, which is used by the body, as well as the brain, for fuel and any leftover glucose that is not used is then stored as fat.

A low carb high fat (LCHF) diet plan tells your body to burn stored fat by converting this fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies in your liver.

If your physical activity requires energy, then the body will convert the food you eat into energy, burn it and store the rest.

If the intake of calories is more than the expenditure of energy in our body, then the excess food gets converted to proteins and fats, which gets stored in the body for future use.