This is a complicated chemical process to do with getting energy from the food we eat.  Calories in food are units that measure how much energy a particular food gives the body.

A chocolate bar has more calories than an apple, so it provides the body with more energy — and sometimes that can be too much of a good thing.

Just as a car stores petrol in the tank until it is needed to fuel the engine, the body stores calories — primarily as fat. If you overfill a car’s petrol tank, it spills out. It’s the same if a person eats too many calories, they “spill over” and make body fat.

CREATE is a way of training selected local members of a community (community champions) to be able to help the people around them stay healthy or become healthier.

The aim is to equip community champions to help people to understand more about how they can stop heart disease, stroke and diabetes, and to talk to people who already have these conditions about how to prevent more illness.