Studies have shown that varying the amount of dietary fat from 93 grams to 168 grams a day resulted in no change in the amount of fat in the stool, which in this study was always less than 10 grams a day.5 It was constant and, on average, about 8 grams a day. Where does the rest go? It gets absorbed into the body, of course. And once in the bloodstream, it can go only two places: to the cells to be burned as fuel or to adipose tissue (fat storage). And studies have shown that most of the fat goes to fat storage before being used as fuel.6 Eating fat will quickly shut down lipolysis, the
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