NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sweet Potato, Atherosclerosis, Ketone Bodies
5 Oct 2015
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Fact: eating a diet rich in bre can help prevent type 2 diabetes. If your body is low on glucose, protein can be turned into glucose via gluconeogenesis. Your body needs protein to make organs, muscles, skin, enzymes, hormones, blood, everything. Your body will steal protein from blood, organs and muscle to make glucose: allows for fat breakdown, your body cannot metabolize fat without a little bit of carbohydrate to get it started, prevent ketosis. If you eat too little carbohydrates, there"s not enough to feed your brain and red blood. You start making ketone bodies out of fat cells. Diabetes history: too much glucose in the blood, rst describes in 1500bc. In egypt = great emptying of urine. In india = sweet urine that attracts ants: in 250bc the greeks described it as the melting down of esh and limbs into urine , discoveries in the late 1700s and 1800s.
