Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >When you eat lots of carbs, your glycogen reserves are >almost always full, so incoming carbohydrate can't be deposited in >them. Therefore a great deal of it must be converted to fat, and the >fat into which it is converted is almost all saturated. 98% palmitic >acid, in fact. It would be interesting to know how much palmitic acid is produced from say 100 g of carbohydrate. Any idea? >My conjecture is this: mammalian metabolisms are able to handle a >liberal but not unlimited quantity of SFA with no problem. You can get >this SFA by eating lots of carbs and little fat, and converting the >carbs to SFA. Or you can get it by eating lots of fa t and little carb. Excuse my ignorance. Can body store dietary saturated fatty acids, or are they just floating around in the blood stream? Fredrik