Did you know that the main cause of obesity is the food we eat and the quantity we eat them? And if you have a slow metabolism, that could be a factor too but a secondary factor. The primary cause of obesity is DIET!

In the time we live in today, there tends to be too many junk foods everywhere, and they are always hard to resist most of the time, don't you think?

Today, I will teach you facts about common foods you take all the time in relation to how your body looks.

Did you know that the body produces some of the nutrients it uses for its day to day activities? Well, not all the nutrients but most of them, the nutrients that the body can produce on it's own is call nonessential nutrients why the nutrients the body can't produce is called essential nutrients, the body gets essential nutrients from the food you eat.
Did you know that carbohydrates does not contain any essential nutrient? I will tell what that means later.

Did you know that unlike fatty acids (gotten from fat) and glucose (gotten from carbohydrates) the body does not store amino acids?
Examples of essential nutrients are protein, minerals, vitamins, water and fat.

Do you know how we get fat? We simply get fat by eating more calories than our body needs for the day, calories are the energies contained in the food we eat, our body needs calories everyday to function properly. Let's say your body needs 1500 calories per day and you consume 1600 calories per day, the excessive 100 calories is stored as fat or glucose inside your body. As time goes on, this calories multiplies and before you know it, you are already overweight, you don't get over weight by consuming specific foods, you simply get overweight by consuming excess calories and every food contains calories but in different quantity.
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