Why does some fat clog your arteries and other fat make you chubby?
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When the body has excess energy and nutrients it doesn’t need to use, it builds fat cells to store them. That’s the fat that makes you chubby.
Fat has all these designated places in the body (fat deposits) where they’re built. The cells themselves are built “on location,” so it’s not as if the fat cells themselves are moving through the bloodstream. However, the building blocks for them are, because the blood is the highway network of the body. And sometimes, these building blocks get loose and just float around aimlessly, or get stuck on the walls of a blood vessel.
Now, for a person with a healthy diet, this is negligible. These building blocks are really really tiny. But for a body that’s intaking a *lot* of calories every day, now there’s a lot of these building blocks being moved around. So it’s easy for more building blocks to get lost and get stuck with it. And soon, it’s built up enough that it’s causing bloodflow issues, like a kink in a hose or a closed lane on a highway.
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