How Does The Body Store Food???

[bobstar]

this is a basic question but understanding it for me would help a lot!! what i want to know is how does the body break down and store food.
for example, at lunch i would eat 2 pieces of grilled chicken, spiced rice, corn on the cob and a reg coke to wash it down with.

what the question is how is the body going to break down and store the food.

1) is the protein from the chicken going direct to the muscles? if eating the skin does that go direct to the fat stores?

2) where are the carbs from the rice and corn going to?

3) is the sugar from the coke going direct to your fat stores, how does the body convert sugar into fat anyway?

4) if there was any oil used in these foods what would the body do with that?

5) last question after the body has taken what it needs from food, what is it that you are s*iting out?

[yodaddy]

cantreally answer ur questions becuase i am not pos about all of them. but i do kno that the coke in your lunch is horrible and you shoudl prob drop it man, i made my lil sister stop drinking soda and jucies and she stayed strickly with water and crystal light and she dropped 10 pounds in a month just from that change in her diet(which is horrible to begin with). sorry i couldnt answer ur question just thought i would tell ya about the coke

[DNoMac]

Many variables involved with how/what your body will store. Fat is stored as triglycerides, and carbs are stored as glycogen in the muscles. All macros can be converted to fa and/or energy, some more easily than others. Kind of a broad question to answer. Read around the forum and I'm sure you'll find the details.

[SMAN12b]

This is very difficult to answer specifically without knowing how your body reacts to food and the current metabolic rate for your body.
But basically the body works in 3 hour shifts. Whatever you eat will be used in one way or another within the following 3 hours, your body uses the carbs to store energy and to help with the protein synthesis so YES some of the protein will go to muscle but not all.
depending on you metabolism, some of the fat will be burned right away, and some could get stored if your body feels it needs to have reserve fuel depending on you eating habits. The optimum eating is a meal containing ALL micros every 2.5-3 hours this way the body will not need to "store" fat and you will lose more bodyfat depending on yo activity level.
NOTICE the word "depending" is used a lot in the above. That is due to many factors depend on YOU. Your activity level, your metabolism etc....
Definetly the coke and other high frutose sugars are best stayed away from as high GI carbs tend to spike your insulin and cause many problems

HOpe this helped

[KeyMastur]

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/

just google somethin like "how does the digestive system work" and you'll see tons of useful information.

[bobstar]

thanks guys i will keep searching.

[Kärnfysikern]

1) is the protein from the chicken going direct to the muscles? if eating the skin does that go direct to the fat stores?

The protein you eat gets split up into its individual amino acids and added to a "pool" of amino acids circulating in your body. This pool is keept fairly constat all the time, whenever your body needs amino acids for something it pulls it from the pool and if you havent eaten anything the pool will be replenished by catabolising some tissue. When you have a excess in the pool like after a meal it will be burned or stored or used in some manner.

Some of the protein will get converted into glucose(search for gluconeogenesis) and ketones. Especialy if you eat a diet low in carbs.

2) where are the carbs from the rice and corn going to?

All carbs that you eat ultimately ends up as glucose in the blood stream. It can end up as glycogen in the liver or muscle when stored. If not stored it is used to produce ATP(the fuel for everything in the body).

3) is the sugar from the coke going direct to your fat stores, how does the body convert sugar into fat anyway?

Generaly carbs are not converted to fat and store. But carbs release insulin and insulin blunt lipolysis(fat burning) and it also prevents fat cells to release fat. So you can say that when you eat carbs you turn of the bodys fat burning ability. This is the main reason that carbs, especialy high gi carbs, are fattening.

Carbs can be turned into fat but it is fairly inefficient. The carbs has to be split up into further chemicals that are later pieced togheter into fat molecules.
I think carbs are broken down into pyruvate and the pyruvate is broken down into acetyl Coenzym A.
The acetyl Coenzym A is then merged with some additional carbon atoms and you get fat as a end product somewhere . I dont know any details. But I do know its energy inefficient.

Do a search on lipogenesis, lipid synthesis or lipid anabolism and you will probably find alot of details

4) if there was any oil used in these foods what would the body do with that?

Burn it or store it. Fat is also building block of many things in the body so it might go to those purposes. Cholesterol ect. If you dont eat much carb the fat can be used to make ketones that work as a replacement for glucose in most parts of the body.

5) last question after the body has taken what it needs from food, what is it that you are s*iting out?

Fibers, a bit of water and other stuff that is not digestable. The body is very good at scavanging all nutrients from food so its generaly just useless shit Plenty of the fiber and undigestable carbs have been consumed by bacteria aswell(reason you far from beans).

You should read abit about the citric acid cycle and ATP production. Wikipedia seems to have fairly good articles(from a laymans point of view its hard to tell how accurate they are though). Dont bother about the formulas ect if your not into chemistry. Just read up on the key steps and key components.

[DNoMac]

The body is very good at scavanging all nutrients from food so its generaly just useless shit

Great post Johan