Food energy?

Question

What is the effect on your body of eating food that provides too much energy?

Answer 1

energy = calories, more calories than the body can burn = fat
ergo;- too much energy means extra stored as fat

Answer 2

Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion. The values for food energy are expressed in kilocalories (kcal) and kilojoules (kJ).

One calorie is the amount of energy (heat) to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius. The magnitude of human energy requirements makes it awkward to use such a small unit, so the convention of the capitalized Calorie is equal to 1000 lowercase calories, and is abbreviated kcal to indicate that is 1000 times as large as the calorie.

The International System of Units unit kilojoule is becoming more common. In some countries (Australia, for example) only the kilojoule is normally used. Some types of food contain more food energy than others: fats and sugars have particularly high values for food energy. One Calorie is approximately equal to 4.1868 kilojoules.

Measuring food energy
In the early twentieth century, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed a procedure for measuring food energy that remains in use today.

The food being measured is completely burned in a calorimeter so that the heat released through combustion can be accurately measured. This amount is used to determine the gross energy value of the particular food. This number is then multiplied by a coefficient which is based on how the human body actually digests the food.

For example, pure sugar releases about 3.95 kilocalories per gram (16.5 kJ/g) of gross energy but the digestibility coefficient of sugar is about 98% in humans, so the food energy of sugar is 0.98 × 3.95 = 3.87 kilocalories per gram (16.2 kJ/g) of sugar. Note, the digestibility coefficient is likely to vary between individuals based on genetic predisposition, and possibly may be affected by state of physical fitness of the individuals measured, but the mean digestibility for most people is around 98%.
THE CHEMICAL EFFECTS

Answer 3

The molecules that your body breaks down for food but doesn't process into energy tend to get turned into lipids for storage, or else the monomers that make up the food are used to make structural or functional molecules for your body (amino acids, DNA/RNA, structural proteins, etc.).

Answer 4

when you have too much energy in your body it is due to having too much glucose and what you body does is secrete insulin from the pancreas and this changes the glucose into starch so it can be stored and when you body is low on energy your pancreas will secrete glucagon to change the starch back to glucose.

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Answer 5

no food provides too much energy.

Answer 6

fat