Sentences with phrase «use of glucose as»

At the same time, other tissues in the body decrease their use of glucose as fuel.

The GL values are included for most of the foods and were calculated by multiplying the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving size of the food by the GI value of that food (with the use of glucose as the reference food), which was then divided by 100.

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For example, during the first days of fasting, insulin concentrations slightly decrease, encouraging a switch from our body using glucose to using fat as a main source of energy.

• Health Canada has approved Sunfiber for use as a dietary fiber source, based on clearly demonstrated safety and clinical evidence that the addition of Sunfiber to foods, results in more than 20 percent reduction in postprandial blood glucose levels.

I discourage the use of fructose based sweeteners (agave, maple syrup, coconut sugar, honey etc.) as they increase the risk of dysbiosis, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome, glucose intolerance, and diabetes.

HbA1C provides an indication of average blood glucose over the past 3 months and is used as a diagnostic for pre-diabetes and diabetes.

The glycemic index (GI) also is extensively used as a tool to help diabetics manage their condition by providing a measure of the effect of foods on blood glucose levels after eating.

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

I would be very interested to hear your views on the subject of sweeteners, in particular whether you recommend using them at all (as they all definitely have an impact on blood glucose levels) and if they are being used, which are «best» from your perspective.

Rice syrup is considered a better choice of sweetener as it contains predominantly glucose which our bodies easily use as fuel, and no fructose which is the sugar our bodies can't use.

Small amounts occur naturally in such fruits as pears, melons, and grapes, but virtually all of the erythritol used as a food additive is produced by fermenting glucose with various yeasts.

Carbohydrates include 3 grams of dietary fiber and 29 grams of naturally occurring sugars such as fructose, glucose and sucrose to provide quick energy and are readily used by the body.

So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?

Some of that glucose is used right away as energy and some is stored for after birth.

Now Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and colleagues have devised a cage made of gamma - cyclodextrin, a ring of glucose molecules often used as a food additive (Angewandte Chemie, DOI: 10.1002 / anie.201002343).

FDG - PET, one of the only molecular imaging techniques routinely used in oncology, employs a glucose - like probe, FDG, with a radioactive isotope of fluorine attached as a beacon.

«Our cost of manufacturing will be comparable to what it currently takes to make single - use glucose test strips — as little as 10 to 15 cents.

These energy molecules are then used to power the «second stage» of photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide from the air is fixed into carbon - based sugars, such as glucose and sucrose.

Healthy cells use most of their glucose «fuel» to produce energy, rather than for building components of new cells, such as fats and DNA.

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.

The threads collected data on tissue health (e.g. pressure, stress, strain and temperature), pH and glucose levels that can be used to determine such things as how a wound is healing, whether infection is emerging, or whether the body's chemistry is out of balance.

If the spermlike motor works, it could someday use the body's own energy source — glucose — to do such things as run super-tiny medical devices designed to release anticancer drugs or trigger the breakup of potentially deadly clots.

Using PET brain scans, they showed that those with impaired illness awareness also had reduced glucose uptake in specific brain regions, even when accounting for other factors linked to reduced glucose uptake, such as age and degree of memory loss.

As food breaks down into glucose — the simplest form of sugar, which the body uses for fuel — you will experience a surge in

Issues such as speed of action of the forms of insulin used, reliability, convenience and accuracy of glucose monitors plus cybersecurity to protect devices from hacking, are among the issues that are being addressed.

Brown fat adipocytes use fat and glucose as sources of energy.

Two papers evaluating glucose meters — used by diabetics to monitor blood sugar levels — suggested that a couple of the devices don't work as well as they should.

The reason alpha - cyclodextrins lower postprandial glucose and cholesterol, and the reason they got relatively easy approval for use as food additives even in the EU, is because they aren't absorbed systemically: they work largely as soluble fiber does, binding excreted bile acids and slowing absorption of glucose.

Meanwhile, when the authors used other blood glucose measures as the diagnostic criteria, they found no significant difference in the likelihood of diabetes and prediabetes among patients with or without SCT.

That has been rather controversial, but the mechanism appears to be that normally insulin does increase lipid synthesis, because it wants to use some of the fuel coming from glucose and other pathways, and help store that energy as fat.

For the analysis of mRNA levels for asparagine synthetase (ASNS), CHOP (CCAAT / enhancer - binding protein homologous protein), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), glucose transporter 1 (Slc2a1) and monocarboxylate transporter 4 (Slc16a3), RT - PCR as well as qPCR were used.

The drug, exendin - 4 (marketed as Exenatide), which mimics the effects of GLP - 1, is used to lower blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.

The first part of this is to generate — or regenerate — cells that sense glucose and produce insulin that might ultimately be used to replace the beta cells lost as both type 1 and 2 diabetes progresses.

The glucose, like all of the nutrients, soon gets absorbed into the bloodstream creating a peak in what we call «blood sugar levels», which results with the releasing of more insulin from the pancreas in order to push glucose to the cells, basically «commanding» the cells to open up and absorb it, where it gets used as an energy source.

This is all due to a ketogenic diet's ability to switch your body to using fat as its fuel source instead of glucose.

This test is run as part of the regular panel at my local lab and it is also a test used in monitoring and controlling diabetes as it measures average blood glucose over a period of 3 - months.

As this is just a screening test with room for error that is testing for a problem with the potential for big complications, I decided to find out if there was a more accurate alternative that could be used instead of or in addition to the 1 - hour glucose challenge test.

The body uses glucose accumulated in the blood, then the glycogen from the liver and muscles to their full capacity and once they are depleted, it begins to use fat as a source of energy.

On the flip side, I have gotten a lot of emails and letters from people who follow a low - carb diet or specifically paleo diet who are working out 5 - 6 days a week and dealing with horrible sugar cravings, hormone imbalance and other issues similar to what I experienced, and I can only attribute this to our body's preference for using the glucose from carbohydrates as its primary energy source.

This is induced to accumulate fat in tissue as well as used in the form of glucose for muscles.»

I was at the top of my game, intermittent fasting and in intermittent ketosis, where I would dip into a keto state for most the week but then have a couple carb - load meals to replenish glycogen levels and teach my body to use both glucose and ketones for energy as best as I could.

It was found that higher levels of blood pressure in people who consumed more fructose and glucose, both sweeteners which are found in the most common sugar sweetener made use of by the beverage industry known as high - fructose corn syrup.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't use insulin as it should or when the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin to ferry glucose out of the bloodstream and into the cells.

Using easy - to - understand subjective measures, like how you feel after a meal, as well as a blood glucose monitor, you can precisely determine what amounts and types of carbohydrates and other foods allow you to keep your blood sugar within healthy ranges.

Fasting forces the body to use fat as fuel instead of glucose.

Once you get keto - adapted (usually 3 - 4 weeks), your body will switch from using glucose to using ketones and fatty acids as the main source of energy.

I use the term «right amount» because consuming excessive amounts of carbs, which convert into large amounts of glucose, will cause hormone issues of a different kind, such as

If you don't have diabetes, starch in brown rice and potato will be broken down and converted to individual molecules of glucose, which will then make their way into your bloodstream to provide energy or be stored as glycogen or fat for later use.

This glucose can be used as fuel during times of calorie restriction.

This is also why you don't starve to death when you restrict food for weeks at a time, because your body is able to convert stored fat into ketones that are used as fuel instead of glucose.