That's what fat cells do, they convert glucose into a form for storage.

这也就是脂肪细胞的工作,它们将糖转化为另一种形式储存起来

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In fact, people do consume foods with cholesterol, but most of the cholesterol in the body is synthesized from foods that don't have cholesterol itself but have fat that the body turns into cholesterol.

实际上,尽管人们食用含胆固醇的食物,但人体内大多的胆固醇都是由,本身不含胆固醇的食物的脂肪,转化合成而来的

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In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

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