Sentences with phrase «much a food converts»

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I love vegan food, but even if you don't know much about it, this may just convert you.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

Pretending for a moment that a donor dropped from the sky to convert our dwarf kitchen into an actual cooking kitchen, there's still no guarantee that the food produced in it would be much improved.

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

As a result, the body quickly converts it to sugar, which is why flour and processed foods can have as much of an impact on the blood sugar as pure sugar can.

So obviously foods with more sugar in them or those that get converted more rapidly (like carbs as everyone will agree), create a much larger blood sugar spike.

Too much of any food type can be stored as body fat, but protein is less likely to be converted to fat than any other nutrient.

Vitamin A is most abundant in liver and fish liver oils, such as cod liver oil.11 Plant foods rich in carotenoids also provide vitamin A, although they do so much less reliably than liver and cod liver oil because the ability to convert carotenoids to vitamin A varies about ten-fold between individuals.

How much weight a person gains or loses also has a lot to do with the individual's metabolism the process by which the body's cells convert the calories from food into energy for bodily functions such as breathing.

This means two problems occur — they easily convert too much carbohydrate foods into stored body fat, and are prevented from burning high amounts of stored body fat.

However, linoleic acid is not commonly converted into CLA in significant amounts, making CLA much more rare in food.

In herbivores and omnivores, it's not so much the ratios from food as digested, fermented or not, but the way absorbed macronutrients are converted metabolically after digestion.

It makes sense that it wouldn't convert as much (5 % or whatever) because primally, we were getting the remainder from food.

The simple answer is that — yes, you do get good quality from foods such as eggs, meat, fish and nuts but much of the protein in food is not converted into body protein — it just makes waste that the body has to get rid of plus extra calories.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

Probiotic Foods: The principle benefit of Probiotic foods is not so much that your body is obtaining a large inoculation of «healthy» bacteria but more so by the bacteria breaking down proteins and carbohydrates of their food substrate and converting them into fatty acids and lipoproteins much more nutritious and digestion friendly to the relatively limited digestive capabilities of humans (see human digestive tract basics here).

Stocking Up: just how much food does it take to feed a dino - chow convert?!

In addition, as far back as 2002, Dr Briffa pointed out in his book «Ultimate Health» other factors such as damaged fats, especially hydrogenated fats and trans - fatty acids, the presence of homocysteine and the importance of controlling insulin by avoiding and excess of refined foods and too much sugar or anything which converts quickly to sugar such as processed carbohydrates.

Use construction drones to build dozens of types of structures to house your colonists, grow food, store resources, manage air quality, mine ore, convert resources, perform research and manufacturing, and much more.

It also lent itself much more directly than coal to being converted into food for people.The use of oil powered farming machines, oil and gas (an oil byproduct) based herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers, and oil based long distance food transport, has allowed us to convert oil into food pretty directly.

They happily convert carbon compounds in their food to carbon dioxide, and also to very substantial quantities of methane, which is much worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

The communities of bacteria around deep sea volcanic (hydrothermal) vents survive by converting highly toxic hydrogen sulfide into food through chemosynthesis much like surface algae convert sunlight to food via photosynthesis.