0800 040 7526 A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips? Not
quite, but nearly; and faster. Have a big mac for lunch, and by
tea time the fat will be on your middle. Scientists at Oxford
University have discovered that fat from food can be converted
into fatty tissue that sits on our waist and hips in as little
as three hours, much quicker than previously thought. That’s how
quickly you can get fat. For the research, volunteers were given
food that contained fatty acids that had been “marked” with
slightly heavier isotopes of carbon that are easily tracked in
the body, so scientists could follow their route. The study
found that it took about an hour for the fats to be broken down
in the gut, then entering the bloodstream as tiny droplets.
These droplets were then carried around the body until caught by
adipose cells in the waist and stored. The good news is that
this storage is temporary – the fat is broken down and used
during exercise. But if the subjects continued to eat to excess
and did not do enough