After you eat a meal, your body absorbs
the glucose from the digested food.
Not exact matches
All forms of carbohydrates, whether they are coming
from a healthy
food or unhealthy
food, turn into «sugar» (
glucose, or fructose in the case of fruit) after they are
digested.
The fungus makes the chelator and produces hydrogen peroxide
from oxygen, and together they start to
digest the cell wall into the sugar found in the basic building block of wood,
glucose, which the fungus can use as
food.
It then transports
glucose — a simple sugar made
from the
digested carbohydrates —
from the
food to the muscles to be used for energy.
Adding one teaspoon of natural sugar to a bowl of oatmeal will add four grams of sugar or 16 calories and barely impact the rate at which that
food is
digested and released to the bloodstream (remember, your liver won't know if the
glucose molecule it is processing came
from the oatmeal or the teaspoon of sugar).
Blood sugar refers to the amount of sugar or
glucose in the blood at any given time obtained
from digested food.
Who in their right mind would avoid fruits and beans — unless of course, one had problems
digesting starches or problems utilizing the
glucose from medium / high - glycemic
foods.
One of insulin's jobs is to take the
glucose that comes
from digested food and get it into your cells where it can be used for energy, The cell's of insulin - resistant women will not respond to a normal amount of insulin so the pancreas will produce higher amounts of insulin to control blood sugar.