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How Does Sugar Turn to Fat?

Many people who watch what they eat to maintain nutrition or lose weight tend to stay away from refined white sugars. While these sugars don't always get converted to fat, they're not meant to be part of a healthy diet.

  1. Sugar

    • Any type of sugar acts as a sort of fuel for your body, no matter how-short lived the energy surge. Straight sugar, like the kind added to your coffee every morning, is refined white sugar. Soft drinks are especially bad, since they're practically liquid sugar and enter your system immediately.

    Digestion

    • Once any type of sugar is ingested, the body starts to digest it and causes a series of biochemical events. Digestion occurs even before the food is swallowed, due to digestive enzymes in your saliva. Refined white sugar is immediately converted to blood sugar.

    Ingestion

    • If sugar affects your blood sugar at a high rate and quickly, your liver may convert the sugar to fat. This happens particularly when refined white carbohydrates are ingested, turning into sugar and then into fat.

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