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Had a full English? Then you’ll be fat in three hours



Jonathan Leake, Science Editor Published: 13 May 2012




A MOMENT on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. Not quite, but scientists have found fat can reach your waistline just three hours after being eaten.

Researchers from Oxford University measured how quickly the fat in a meal was converted into the fatty tissue that girdles our bodies. They found the average person can add the equivalent of 2-3 teaspoons of fat to their waist within hours of eating.

Even worse, that quantity can be greater for a high-fat meal, such as a full English or Scottish breakfast, especially if eaten earlier in the day. It has long been known that fatty meals promote weight gain but it was thought the process was gradual. The reality is, however, far starker.

“We found that, after eating a meal, the first fat from it enters the blood about an hour later,” said Fredrik Karpe, professor of metabolic medicine at Oxford. “By the time 3-4 hours have passed, most of it has been incorporated into our adipose tissue, mostly in the shorter term fat stores around our waists.”

It had been thought that fat was transported from the gut into the blood where it could be used by muscles as needed. Any excesses were thought to be slowly removed and stored in the adipose tissue around the waist, hips and legs.

However, the research by Karpe and Oxford colleague Keith Frayn, suggests a far more complex picture. The pair asked volunteers to eat foods containing “labelled” fatty acids — fat molecules containing slightly heavier isotopes of carbon. This meant they could trace their route around the body.

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Too bad it doesn't work the other way.