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What nutrient is needed to meet the bodys needs?
Carbs
The general types of carbs are
simple sugars and comlex (polysaccharides) sugars
Digestion of starch begins in the
mouth and continues in the small intestine with the pancreatic amylase
How many calories per gram to carbs provide?
4 cal per gram
Monosaccharides have how many units of sugar
1 sugar: glucose, fructose, and galactose
Disaccharides have how many units of sugar
2 sugars: sucrose(salt), maltose(sugar), lactose(sugar milk).
Sucrose
2 sugar
made of of glucose and fructose
maltose
2 sugar
mad up of glucose and glucose
lactose
2 sugar
glucose and galactose
Insulin:
secreated from the pancreas. decreases blood sugar.
Glucagon
secreated from the pancrease. increasing blood sugar
Epinephrine
secreated from the adrenal glad.
flight or fight response and increase blood sugar
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Chapter 4
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2011-02-24T03:37:45Z
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