> If you eat more of anything than you need for energy your liver turns it into fat. Yes, but without insulin the fat can't be deposited in your fat cells. Insulin is required to deposit fat. Without an insulin response there is no mechanism for fat deposition. If you disagree, please explain the metabolic pathway. As a side note, your body can only use about 5g of carbohydrates at any given time. The rest is guaranteed to be converted to triglycerides by the liver and deposited as adipose tissue by insulin. That's not even the worst effect of carbohydrates. What's worse is that they drive the formation of small dense LDL cholesterol and glycation of ApoB-100 on those LDL particles, a process which drives atherosclerosis. A glycated ApoB-100 causes cholesterol receptors in the liver to no longer be able to recognize LDL, so it builds up in the blood.