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Based on your knowledge of metabolism, describe why eating a fatfree but high calorie diet can lead to fat gain. Describe thespecific pathways that sugar can take to become stored lipids. Nodiagrams

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Normally,Our body uses Glucose(Carbohydrates)for energy.

So After a meal, carbohydrates are broken down immediately into glucose as a source of energy.

But Excess glucose gets stored as glycogen in the liver or can be converted into fatty acids.

Glucose in Glycolysis-----------------Pyruvate.(1 Glucose-------------2 Pyruvate)

Pyruvate----------------------------------Acetyl coA (Pyruvate Decarboxylation by pyruvate dehydrogenase complex.)

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