how long do carbohydrates stay in your body before they become fat?

Answer 1

This depends on the circumstances of the carbohydrates entering your body.

When you eat a Carb rich meal the blood carries sugars from your gut to the liver and then onto the rest of the body. the liver takes up large amounts of sugar and firstly stores it as a complex carbohydrate called glycogen. it also starts turning excess sugars into fat, this takes approximately 30 min after ingestion. the liver then exports the fat and excess sugar to muscle and adipose tissue (fat tissue), the sugar is turned into glycogen in the muscle and the sugar and fat are turned into complex fats in the afipose tissue, this occurs approximately 2-4 hours after the meal. The timing changes depending on the size of the meal and the state you are in (ie starved, or full).
Sugars that aren't taken up by the liver, continue in the blood stream and are taken up by muscle and adipose tissue. depending on the amount of sugar you ingested, this can take quite a while, with blood sugars remaining high for a couple of hours..

In short the answer to your question is anywhere from 30 minutes to days

Answer 2

It doesn't quite work that way.

Your body is large and complex, chemically speaking, and can often be doing several things at once that seem to be at cross purposes.

To some extent, your fat cells are ALWAYS taking fatty acids in your blood stream and assembling them into fat tissue in your body. And to some extent, they are always breaking it down. The balance between the two activities is controlled by a variety of things - insulin, blood sugar, and other stuff.

Eating one type of food or another cannot entirely prevent either process because your body can assemble most fatty acids from whatever happens to be handy. Which is often a good thing - you need fatty acids to stay alive!

If you want to not get fat, just don't eat a lot more calories than you use. Simple as that!

Answer 3

When baking, swap out the butter for one of those.

Answer 4

Follow a far more trim protein/green plant diet

Answer 5

place a smaller amount foods out and you will consider much less inside

Answer 6

carbohydrates don't become fats bacuase they are two diffrent organic molecules. people who cut "carbs" out of their diet do so, because carbohydrates take a long time for your body the hydrolysize(digest) the "carbs" into simple sugar and supply energy. those people cut the "carbs" out of their diet because if you eat a lot of "carbs" throughout the day, along with the combiination of no excersice, the excess calorie content that you recieve from the carbohydrates might be stored in your body, causing you the get "fat"

Answer 7

to the best of my knowledge carbs and fat are 2 different things, but they both contain calories which makes you put weight on, which is probably what you mean, I'm not sure how long it takes but heres a rough guide of the calories
1 g protein = 4 cals
1 g carbs = 4 cals
1 g fat = 9 cals

so you get an idea how it works, hope that helps.

Answer 8

well its hard to say interms of minutes, but take it simply, the food you have taken gives you energy and a healthy man needs 2000kilo joules perday. so if you get food(calories/ energy/ food energy) it is not used so is converted in the form of fat.
You might know about the ADP-> ATP process which stores energy in the body.

Answer 9

Make your personal low-fat ice cream using frozen bananas and peanut butter or perhaps luscious cherries and chocolate.

Answer 10

I think it's not the carbs that turn to fat but, the excess calories you eat per day in your diet that are not burned up. Refined carbs make you bloated and that may feel like weight gain.