when consumed, does vegetable oil eg. olive oil turn into body fat?

Answer 1

There has been some evidence that dietry fat is more readily converted to stored body fat but not conclusively so.

Any excess energy, whether consumed as protein, fat, carbohydrate, alcohol etc beyond your immediate calorific requirements will be stored by the body as fat.

In the interest of weight control it is advised to control your dietry fat intake simply because gramme for gramme dietry fat contains twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrate. ( 9 cals/g versus roughly 4cals/g for protein or carbs, 7 for alcohol)

Answer 2

LOL!!!

Vegetable/olive/rapeseed oil DOES NOT just turn into human body fat when eaten. Come on!! How would that work??? It doesn't just magically turn from vegetable fat to human fat!!

What would happen though, is the oil would be broken down by the body once consummed. Like any food, the body will break it down and decide what it will use for energy and what will be stored as energy (fat) for later use. It's a pretty complicated system, but basically thats how it goes!


Hope that helps a little!

Answer 3

Any foods containing calories which are not used by the body will be converted into energy storage molecules (usually triacyglycerols) stored in the adipose tissue (fat). It does not follow that if you eat fat you will neceesarily end up storing more fat, unless the calories you consume are in excess of what you 'burn up'. Fat is the richest source of calories though (approx 9 per gram) and that is why you are more likely to comsume more than your calorie requirements if you eat fatty foods.

You could however, gain fat stores from eating no fat at all, if you ate too many protein and carbohydrate calories.

Answer 4

First of all olive oil is not vegetable oil. olives are fruit, and the oil does not act/react the same in the body. Yes vegetable oil can turn to fat, indirectly at least, in the body. it is best to avoid the use of refined oils like vegetable oil. olive oil is usually not refined and actually has some health benefits. grain oil is generally good if it is organic and cold pressed. Any food/drink can cause heath problems if used to excess.

Answer 5

NO

Oil is NOT absorbed by your gut. However, the fatty acids in it can be SELECTIVELY absorbed.

When you take a lot of oil in one go, (say, a spoonful) most of it will not be absorbed. It will stay in your digestive tract, and will affect the consistency and storage of your stools (oily sh*t is stickier and yellower). This is why a spoonful of oil (various kinds) has been a traditional way to keep bowel habits 'regular'.

Fatty acids (fats) that are absorbed from oil in your food, are NOT converted into sugars. They are stored (with glycerol, NOT in fuel form) all the time, whether you have excess energy or not. Fats are also being released from storage all the time.

Unburned sugar is NOT turned into fat. Sugar isn't stored in your body, but the level of sugars in your body tissues will be high if you have absorbed a lot of 'carbohydrate' from your food. It will remain high until it is burned off. This is why you get a 'sugar rush'; your body wants to get rid of excess sugar.

Fat can be constructed from other substances, by liver cells and adipose (fat storage) cells. This 'lipogenesis' only happens in unusual circumstances, and hardly ever in humans.

Answer 6

Not all of the veg oil or any kind of oil ingested will be converted to body fat. Our bodies needs all the basic macromolecules (CARBOHYDRATES, PROTEIN, FATS, etc) in the right amounts. These oils are primarily needed for our brain and hormones amongst other essential organs and fluids. Our brain is mostly "fatty" and our hormones need "cholesterol" (appropriate amounts) for proper functioning of our bodies. It is the EXCESS of FATS, CARBOHYDRATES or even PROTEINS that are turned into body fat as "reserve energy" that the body can naturally tap into when needed.

Answer 7

Depending on how much work/exercise you get, it could, but that could be said of anything you eat. Olive oil is a good oil to cook with because it is less likely to cause cholesterol problems.

Answer 8

Olive oil is extremely healthy for you(Still don't over do it). No it won't turn into trans fat.

Answer 9

Do not skip meals. Your body will revert to help starvation mode and store even the littlest amount of fat content in what we subsequently eat, causing you to slow your metabolism and put upon weight.

Answer 10

almost anything with lots of calories when consumed in excess of what calories your body burns turns into sugar which is converted into fat and stored in the body.