When the blood glucose remains higher than the insulin can bring down to normal, the liver steps in and tries to bring the high blood sugar back to normal by converting as much of the glucose as possible into fatty acids. It then joins three of these together with a glycerol unit into what is called a triglyceride. While in the blood, another name for triglyceride is  blood fat. We all have cells located throughout our body into which this triglyceride is poured for storage purposes. Once stored, we call these triglycerides “body fat”. As strange as it may seem skinny people and fat people have roughly the same amount of these fat storage cells. The difference is that in skinny people they are flat, like an empty plastic sandwich bag. For those who gain weight easily, what is happening is that as they eat more and more “simple” carbohydrates, the excess glucose which cannot be burned as energy is turned into more and more triglyceride molecules which are then stored in these fat cells. These fat storage cells just keep getting bigger and bigger, literally stuffed with triglyceride molecules. When you look at the fat which is stored on your body, what you are actually seeing is glucose derived from your diet which was in excess of what your body could use. This excess dietary glucose has been converted to triglyceride and stored as fat.How dangerous to your health is stored body fat? There are a couple of things which have been learned about this which is important to know. If you are a thin person, and you eat lots of “simple” carbohydrates but don’t get fat, it may be that your fat cells just refuse to take up the triglyceride and it is just getting higher and higher in your blood. In this case, you may be in much more danger of having a heart attack or stroke than the person who is more than 20 pounds above their ideal weight. It has also been found that where you store that fat has a lot to do with how harmful it is going to be. Estrogenically dominated fat deposits, with most of the fat placed below the waist tends to keep blood triglyceride levels low. Although large fat deposits anywhere increase health risks, it poses less risk of heart attack to that person than someone who has Androgenically dominated fat deposits. This is when most of the fat is placed at and above the waist. The danger here is that these individuals tend to have higher blood triglyceride levels. The more your waist measurement is larger than your hip measurement, the more likely it is that you will have higher blood triglyceride levels. Scientists have found that consistently elevated blood triglyceride levels is a better indicator of future heart attacks and strokes than is elevated cholesterol. What is important for you to keep in mind, is that both high cholesterol or high triglyceride, as is obesity, is the direct result of a diet that is low in micro-nutrients and high in simple carbohydrates that quickly convert to glucose. Obesity, being more than 20 pounds over your ideal body weight is one of the fastest growing health problems in America. As with diabetes, obesity is a condition which always has more cancer, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and shorter life span occur, than with normal body weight people.