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As other commenters have pointed out, the pathway of converting dietary fat to body fat is extremely efficient compared to the ones for carbs and proteins. The body has ways to store or convert most of the macro nutrients to fat when needed, insulin spikes help with that but aren't the only mechanism to trigger fat storage.


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