Why we are fat

Statistics may vary but approximately 75% of people in North America are overweight, and yet there are more people on diets and purchasing diet "low fat" foods than ever before but we continue to get fatter decade after decade.

So why are we continuing to gain weight? A low metabolism causes our body to burn the food we eat at a very slow pace and turning it into fat. Well there are a few reasons that this is happening in your body. You don't just have a low metabolism there is some type of imbalance in your body that causes a low metabolism.

-One cause is yo-yo dieting...continually losing and gaining weight will have your metabolism all screwed up.

-An under active thyroid, when your body's ability to convert food into energy is slowed you'll have a higher chance of the food you eat to turning to fat.

-Clogged livers, the liver is the detoxifying organ. When this organ is clogged your metabolism will slow down.

-sluggish digestive systems, if your not producing enough digestive enzymes than your food is not getting converted to energy and you the food gets turned into fat.

Where's the fat?

A human can have anywhere from 50 to 200 billion fat cells in there body, the majority of which are located directly under the skin and the rest are distributed throughout the body. Men have higher percentages of fat cells (subcutaneous fat) in the chest, abdomen and buttocks, while women have higher percentages of fat cells (subcutaneous fat) in the breasts, hips, waist and buttocks. There is also fat stored around the kidneys, liver and small amounts inside muscle.

Fat cells are formed in a developing fetus in the third trimester of pregnancy and the rest develop during puberty. It is interesting to note that the number of fat cells in your body doesn't increase after puberty they simply get bigger.

What is fat???

There are two types of fat tissue in your body white fat and brown fat. White fat cells are large cells that have very little cytoplasm, a small nucleus and one large fat droplet that makes up 85% of the cell volume. Brown fat cells are smaller and are loaded with mitochondria, and several small fat droplets.