Sentences with phrase «quickly during digestion»

Carbohydrates that break down quickly during digestion, rapidly absorb glucose to stimulate higher levels of insulin are said to have a higher GI while carbohydrates that break down more slowly have a lower GI.

The glycemic index (GI) helps people with diabetes monitor how carb - heavy foods affect their blood sugar level — white bread, for example, is high on the GI because it breaks down quickly during digestion and causes a spike in blood sugar.

Not exact matches

In the most commonly sold supplement form, BCAAs require no digestion and are quite rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream — which is really neat because it means BCAAs can be used as an immediate energy source during your training sessions, and they will quickly act to decreasing the rate of protein breakdown.

Just empty and quickly digested calories that actually pull minerals from the body during digestion.

These carbohydrates aren't as quickly digested as sugars, but can still raise your blood sugar levels once the bonds between the sugars are broken during digestion.

In this case, the food, fat and phytonutrients (vitamin C) all stay in the stomach for a few hours (during digestion) and if the nitrates are quickly circulated, then they will arrive in the stomach again as nitrites to react with the fat and vitamin C that have not yet left the stomach (and subsequently form nitrosamines).