Sentences with phrase «glucose molecule came»

Yet your body does not care whether a particular glucose molecule came from a pixie stick or a bowl of brown rice, or if amino acids came from a protein shake, a protein bar, or a piece of raw tuna.

Not exact matches

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).

This last point is particularly important, as it is critical to understand that once this amino acid is broken up, your body only sees the carbon skeleton, and doesn't care if this carbon skeleton came originally from a glucose molecule or from a protein.

In order for glucose molecules to enter the bloodstream, they have to come in contact with the intestinal lining... otherwise, they just float around in digestive juices.

On one hand, all of our energy in the body comes from glucose molecules (carbs in their basic sugar form) but on the other, our bodies weren't designed to be surrounded by so many readily available carbs.

On one hand, all of our energy in the body comes from glucose molecules (carbs in their basic sugar form) but on -LSB-...]