Sentences with phrase «metabolize than carbohydrates»

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Although house cats have only a limited ability to metabolize carbohydrates, including starch, they possess a longer intestine than their wild counterparts, presumably to help digest the lower - quality sustenance they get from trash heaps compared with the all - meat diet they would be living on in the wild, according to geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the National Institutes of Health.

After two days, all patients had detectible levels of ketones, showing that they were metabolizing fat — rather than carbohydrates or proteins — for cellular energy.

Other important minerals are magnesium — necessary for more than 300 different important biochemical reactions in your body, and good for your heart and blood pressure; potassium — an electrolyte that keeps the body in the correct acid / base balance and also helps in forming proteins, metabolizing carbohydrates and building muscle.

quickly metabolized into energy, acting more like carbohydrates than other fats.

A robust biome actually is a substantial aid in carbohydrate tolerance because the bacteria can convert starches and sugars into fatty acids rather than blood sugar and, in an OFM athlete, these fatty acids are metabolized for energy as well as nutrition.

Your body burns more calories to process protein than it does to metabolize fat or carbohydrates (6).

There seem to be a lot of individuals within both the high and low carbohydrate diet camps saying that fructose is bad for you — that it will raise your triglycerides and uric acid levels as well as potentially cause fatty liver disease because it is metabolized differently than glucose.

Metabolizing protein does require a higher amount of water than carbohydrates or fats, so it's important to consume a lot of water when on a high protein diet.

The body actually metabolizes MCTs more like carbohydrates than fat.

The energy cost of digesting, absorbing, and metabolizing proteins (23 %) is greater than that of either carbohydrates (6 %) or fat (3 %)(1).

Vegetable glycerin is a carbohydrate but is metabolized differently than sugar and does not raise blood sugar levels.