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Carbs turn to fat, and you need some but if you have too much you'll "pack on the pounds". My dad is on the Atkins low carb diet, so he has to watch how many carbs he eats because they turn to fat. If you burn them off like calories it's not a problem to eat them. It's when you don't burn them off they begin to add up and people gain weight.
Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients essential for health: 1) protein, 2) carbohydrate and 3) fats. Table sugar or sucrose is a carbohydrate. Other examples are glucose, fructose, galactose, lactose etc--these are monosaccharides - meaning they are single molecules of sugar. When many molecules of same type of monosaccharides combine together, a polysaccharide is formed. Starch (in rice, sago, wheat, other grains) is a polysaccharide. When we eat carbohydrates (mainly starch in grains, bread etc.), it is broken down into single molecules of glucose or other monosaccharide. Ultimately as a fuel it reaches into blood as glucose. Carbohydrates form a significant part of vegetarian food. How quickly a food breaks down carbohydrate in it into glucose is called its glycemic index (GI). Foods with high GI tend to deposit fat in your body. Examples of high GI food are white bread, table sugar, white polished rice, etc. Low GI foods are: Raw green peas, unpolished rice, raw corn, cucumbers, tomatoes etc.
Carbohydrates, after breaking down to glucose, are utilized by the body for energy production. Each gram of carbohydrates gives out 4 Calories of energy.
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What are the main nutrients in meat and seafood?
carbohydrated filled with sodium dicks
What is carbohydrated?
complex carbohydrates are made of hundreds of sugar molecules. Carbohydrates are compounds made of sugar.
What kind of food provide carbohydrated?
Mostly grains like bread, rice, noodles, cereal, things like that.
Why are carbohydrate foods usually served with eggs?
because it is a carbohydrated food and it gives the food flavour to the diet
What is a food entree in which one serving contains less than 10 fat 7 or more total carbohydrated less than 2 cholesterol and no saturated fat?
Chicken wings
Why does the blood sugar concentration of a person whose diet is relatively low in carbohydrates remain stable?
why does the blood sugar concentration of a person whose diet is relatively low in carbohydrated remain stable.this isn't an answer!
How do you enhance your vocals so you can sing better?
Drink lots of water, milk, soft non-carbohydrated drinks (no soda-pop). [Ex: Hott coa-coa, coffee, eat bread and jam, etc.]
Why do some foods have so many calories?
Because when you eat food you digest it and enegry is released. What bondings are broken determines how much enegry (calories) the food contains. Fat has ca. 9 cal per gram protein has ca. 4 cal per gram carbohydrated ca. 4 cal per gram alcohol ca. 7 cal per gram Food that have a lot of water in them have less calories as more of the calories per 100 g are grams of water - i.e no calories. Less water would make a food more "calorie dense" of "caloric". Worth noting is that your body will require more energy to burn calories from protein than carbs and fat, so if you are dieting eating protein is important to increase metabolism as well as for preservation of muscle mass.
What are some components of the plasma membrane?
Plasma membranes are made up of phospholipids, these molecules are composed of fatty acid chains that are hydrophobic and phosphate group that are hydrophilic. Due to the properties of these subunits, phospholipids arrange themselves in a bilayer arrangement. The membrane also contains an abundance of proteins that may have various functions such as transport, identification and more.
