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Does our body store extra nutrients if we have to much?
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Yes: Mostly it will stored excess energy in the form of fat and sugar compounds. Some nutrients, especially fat soluble ones will be kept for a long time but you will deplete the stores of water soluble nutrients in a much shorter period of time. The body can handle starvation for a period of several weeks to perhaps 5 weeks before things happen which can be dangerous.
Answered 10/7/2013
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