Why You Got Fat

if fat fuels you while your not eating, why do you need to eat when you're fat?

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Drove my animator nuts, but I liked that one too, thanks.

Calories do matter, but it's a questions of what your body does with the calories and how many it craves. If insulin diverts a higher proportion of your intake to body fat, you will run out of fuel and become hungry, then eat more.

Fat is moved into storage by lipoprotein lipase, which insulin triggers. That's why type I diabetes waste away, no matter how much they eat, unless they take insulin shots. Merely eating more doesn't allow them to store fat.

where the fat wasting-away diabetics eat goes?

If you're not diabetic, you burn some of what you eat, then store some as fat, which provides fuel when you're not eating, when you're sleeping, etc. This happens even if you're skinny overall.

For a type one diabetic who isn't taking insulin, fat isn't stored, so the fat stores are depleted between meals, but not replenished. The calories taken in that aren't used are converted to sugar and lost in the urine -- that's why diabetics have sugary urine.

Another problem is that while other countries win for the number of obese people (but still a small percentage of the whole population) Italy wins for the overweright people (a huge percentage of the population) It would probably win for the unfittest people since sedentarity is everywhere and much worse than in Spain or France. No, eating huge amount of bread and pasta twice per day is the opposite of an healthy diet, it's a zero-nutrition diet.

there's also an important difference as to why Italy in spite of a terrible diet and terrible stressed sedentary lifestyle doesn't have a lot of obese people like america. Because in Italy everyone is used to "small portions" Italy was a poor country where little food was unavailable. In America you get a lot more food for less money. In Italy even fast food serve small portions of food for high price. Yogurt countainers are small, pastries are small, restaurant servings are small...

The numbers put the country at #25, that's all I am saying. I am not arguing with the fact that Italy has overweight people (which western country doesn't anyway?), Heck, even Switzerland has overweight people, still, they are better than most European countries in terms of eating healthy food and obesity rate.