BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Corn Starch, Polysaccharide, Stamen
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Sucrose, lactose, maltose polysaccharide ten or more sugar molecules. Average american consume over 50 lbs of hfcs/year. Hfcs alternative names maize syrup, pole corn juice, glucose-fructose syrup, fructose isoglucose. Clinton corn processing company + japanese reasearch institute in 1970s = first marketing. Allows your body to use sugar (glucose) from carbohydrates in the food that you eat for energy or to store glucose for future use. Obese people intake too much of either one which causes the obeisity. The reaction of the food industry, the corn and the beet industries. The public and the media have trouble identifying the issue: fructose or hfcs. Fructose: slower rate of uptake and is transported into cells via a different transporter than glucose (100% processed by liver) Fructose and obeisity cause insulin resistance which leads to diabetes and other metabolic diseases, so they are both to blame. blending theory of inheritance.
