• Question: when you are young and you eat so much to you get fat at that age or after

    Asked by Alcyblue_12 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 16 Nov 2016.
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      Reka Nagy answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      Your body needs energy to survive. Its favourite source of energy are sugars. If you eat too much sugar, however, your body will be fed and it will store the rest away in the form of fat – which is a less efficient energy storage than sugars are. So if you eat a lot, at any age, you will start to gain fat as soon as your body has had enough to eat and finds that there are still nutrients left!

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