how long does it take for the human body to turn food into fat?

Question

if ya know what i mean. from the moment you eat say, an fatty food, how long does it take the body to gain weight? Is it different for everybody?

Answer 1

Once the stomach gets the food and begins to tear it apart, enzymes strip away the various nutrients, sugars, proteins and carbohydrates from the food.

In terms of calories and energy consumption, it doesn't matter whether you ate cups of carbohydrates or cups of fat. The excess calories will be what sticks with you.

After the food leaves the stomach, it goes into the small intestine, where more digestive juices will break down the food - bile from the liver, for example. These enzymes act as detergents, explained Dr. Virgil Brown, chief of medicine at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a fats and cholesterol expert at Emory University School of Medicine. The "detergents" break that artichoke, mayonnaise, ham, biscuit, chocolate cake and eggnog into simple sugars, amino acids and fatty acids, one of the building blocks of fat that later shows up as stored fat on thighs, hips and bellies.

The fatty acids are used for energy, particularly for muscle movement. But - and here's a really big but - if you don't need the energy, the body's fantastic storage system starts working right away. The unneeded fatty acids torn apart from your food get escorted to a storage cell, or adipocyte.

There, they will sit as fat, unless they get called upon to provide energy.

Answer 2

You will not gain weight if your body need energy , if you are doing physical things like walking or working in the yard or garden or running and exercising.
The excess energy will be stored as body fat for later usage when you are starved etc.
This is everyday process so you gain a bit everyday if you eat more energy than you burn.

Answer 3

There is a mistaken assumption in your question - your body will turn ALL food into fat, if you eat more than your body requires. It has nothing to do with whether you eat fatty foods.

Answer 4

yes it's different for everyone, for some people it happens very quickly but for other it's very slow

Answer 5

not very long about one week