Sentences with phrase «used as a source of fuel»

Well, I believe that food should be used as a source of fuel or recovery for your body, so if you work out, then you need to give it some loving with some good - for - you ingredients I also don't believe in all that no - fat nonsense!

Ketones are used as a source of fuel for the body instead of the energy produced from sugar / carbs.

Ketosis means that your body is producing ketones and your brain is using them as its source of fuel, instead of using glucose.

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Could christians be used as a source of alternative fuel?

This means that the body uses ketone bodies as its primary fuel source a majority of the time.

Aztec warriors used these seeds as a source of fuel before going into battle to boost endurance.

The excess fuel from this high - sugar, high - carb diet is stored as fat which the body uses as a source of insulation and energy for the long, cold -LSB-...]

Grains are naturally low in fat and a rich source of carbohydrates, which are used as the main fuel for the body.

For the purposes of this article, I will argue that «internet protesting» refers to the use of social media, in particular social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to organize and continuously fuel a public manifestation as well as provide a direct and relatively unbiased source of information on its progress and outcomes.

Most of these fireplaces use either one as a fuel source.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

According to city data sources, as of November 2015, only 19 residential buildings were still using this fuel type, including 10 buildings in the Bronx, eight in Lower Manhattan, and 1 in Queens.

One of the strongest greenhouse gases, methane comes from agriculture and fossil fuel use, as well as natural sources such as microbes in saturated wetland soils.

But unlike many of the industries capitalizing on the low price of natural gas, ammonia producers don't use it primarily as a fuel source.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

These castoffs are a huge source of automotive - related pollution — the average used tire weighs 22.5 pounds and contains about two gallons of fuel, as well as other combustible carbon compounds.

Fortunately for the case of using wood for cooking many remote villages are benefitting from solar cooking ovens to reduce reliance on wood as a fuel source.

No matter how you look at it, I think there's only one long - term solution: to stop using carbon as a source of energy, to switch away from using fossil fuels.

They found abnormally low levels of the types of amino acid that can be used as a fuel source in the blood of women with CFS.

Nagrath, who directs Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases, found that some cancer cells are capable of using these information packets as a source of energy to fuel tumor growth.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Instead, the price rise seems to reflect the increasing importance of the secondary, or pre-mined and processed market, as sources of uranium for use in the reactor fuel market.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

«What it does is it takes different sorts of fuel materials such as plutonium or used nuclear fuel, it casts that into a metallic fuel, it puts it in a reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant — and if you have liquid sodium as a coolant then the energies of the neutrons are higher so you can use a different fuel source.

When you're fasting your body uses fat as fuel and preserves muscle.Researchers from the National Institute of Aging theorized in 2003 that intermittent fasting helped trigger the SIRT1 gene, thought to both stimulate cells to release fat for use as an energy source and to deactivate the genes responsible for promoting fat storage.Other research conducted at the University of California at Berkeley indicate that this type of alternate day fasting can protect against diabetes and excessive weight gain.

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

«Sooner or later the body runs out of its preferred fuel source, glycogen, and starts to break down muscles and organs to use as fuel — which is bad news,» says Dr Barclay.

It's designed to put your body into a state of ketosis The ketogenic diet is a super low carb diet designed to put your body into a state of ketosis, where it uses fat as it's primary fuel source.

This step is absolutely crucial for pushing your body to use your stored fat as a primary source of fuel.

The first layer that is just beneath your skin was the type of fat considered by nutrition scientists to be the first type to be used as a fuel source if food was not available.

Normally, your cells use glucose, or sugar, as their main source of fuel.

In response, your liver increases its production of ketones, which can be used as an alternate fuel source for your muscles.

They are one of the building blocks of body tissue and can be used as a fuel source if needed.

The sad reality is that our ancestors were adapted to using fat as their primary fuel, and over 99 percent of us are now adapted to using sugar or glucose as our number one fuel source.

It takes time for the body to get accustomed to using fat as its primary source of fuel.

Ketones are an potent source of fuel for your brain neurons, and when you're ketogenic, you have higher levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor and an enormous upregulation in brain neuron regeneration, focus and mental acuity (once you get over the «hump» of those first 10 - 14 days of making the fuel switch to using strictly fatty acids as your primary energy sources).

If, however, your goals are to lean out, drop a few pounds, or participate in ultra-endurance sports (for instance, running events of more than 100 miles where using fat as a primary fuel source without the need for fast - energy - producing carbs might be more beneficial), a lower carb diet might help you achieve your goals.

When the body is balanced, it uses ingested fat as a source of slow burning energy and carbohydrates as a quick fuel.

We make use of this it helps us to perform all our explosive movement on a molecular level, your body has a bunch of systems which your body uses as the main fuel source in the form of ATP present inside the muscle cell (called Creatine).

If glucose levels drop too much, the liver synthesizes ketone bodies as a sort of back up fuel source for use by other organs (4).

Where the body burns fat as fuel rather than using glucose as its source of energy.

Human brains, unique amongst animals, can use ketones as a major fuel source during prolonged starvation, allowing the conservation of protein such as skeletal muscle.

When using an MCT that is derived from pure coconut oil, there is a delivery of approximately 30 % Lauric Acid which is, as stated before, an important form of MCT that acts as a slower burning fuel source.

Our bodies have adapted since the beginning of mankind to be able to produce BHB and use it as an efficient fuel source when food was scarce which has allowed humanity to survive food shortages and other circumstances where access to dietary carbohydrates are limited.

Insulin is a hormone that transports glucose (your body's main source of fuel) from your bloodstream into your cells where it can be used as energy.

When you are exercising, your muscles use that glycogen as a source of fuel.