Sentences with phrase «free glucose»

This happens because high levels of free glucose in the blood are toxic so your body is actually trying to help you by storing it as fat.

In order to digest the starch in potatoes, your body breaks down this starch and releases it as free glucose in your blood.

Health Fair Gives Shot in the Arm to Parent Involvement In Ronceverte, West Virginia, one middle school's health and wellness fair features free glucose checks, blood pressure checks, and flu shots plus healthy snacks and fun activities.

Fruit flies were placed on specific diets as the researchers measured their sleep, and glycogen, triglycerides and free glucose levels.

Because it means water absorption is heavily dependent on osmotic gradients - if the gut is filled with large quantities of mineral ions (particularly sodium), free glucose, etc., water will remain in the gut to serve as a buffer.

The stomach is unable to break the linkage to free the glucose, so it passes into the colon without being metabolized.

is a unique digestive enzyme in that it breaks off a free glucose molecule from long chain carbohydrates, starches, and maltose.

Insulin causes the cells in your body to take up the free glucose into your bloodstream.