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Managing Type 2 Diabetes | Dr Neal Barnard

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Can You Get Fat From Eating Carbohydrate?

The intro myoscellular fat that is purely from dietary fat, it's not from an excess of other calories that are converted to fat. If you think about it this way, let's say I'm going to eat bread and you eat a slice of bread, your body does not turn that bread into fat. Your body breaks apart the carbohydrate, the glucose molecules come apart, some of it goes to your muscle, some to your brain,. Some to your liver, some to the other parts of the body and there's glucose left over. The way people get fat from eating carbohydrate is they have a cookie or a piece of cake and they called it carbohydrate. But if you look at

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