What does carbohydrates give us a source of?

Answer 1

Making energy isn't the only thing your body does with the carbohydrate nutrients in your diet. Carbohydrates also protect your muscles. When you need energy, your body looks for glucose from carbohydrates first.

If no glucose is available, because you're on a carbohydrate-restricted diet or have a medical condition that prevents you from using the carbohydrate foods you consume, your body begins to pull energy out of fatty tissue. Your body's next move is to burn its own protein tissue (muscles). If this use of proteins for energy continues long enough, you run out of fuel and die.

A diet that provides sufficient amounts of carbohydrates keeps your body from eating its own muscles. That's why a carbohydrate-rich diet is sometimes described as protein sparing.

What else do carbohydrates do?

• Regulate the amount of sugar circulating in your blood so that all your cells get the energy they need.

• Provide nutrients for the friendly bacteria in your intestinal tract that help digest food.

• Assist in your body's absorption of calcium.

• May help lower cholesterol levels and regulate blood pressure (these effects are special benefits of dietry fibres).

Answer 2

Carbohydrates are what gives you your energy if you eat a food like pasta that has alot of carbs in it it gives you energy if you concume more carbs than you burn through phisical activity the extra carbs get stored as fat

Answer 3

It is the main thing in our body that makes energy it is the basic block. If there wasn't a need for carbohydrates then there'd be no reason for people to eat for the energy would be mad elsewhere.

Answer 4

It is broken down by enzymes into simple sugars in your digestive tract. These simple sugars is then used in respiration (which consists of glycolysis, link reaction, Kreb's cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation) in the cells to phosphorylize ADP into ATP. Aerobic respiration gives about 38 ATP while anaerobic respiration gives 2 ATP per molecule of simple sugar.

Answer 5

Carbohydrates provides our body with long term energy, sweets and candy gives us alot of energy and then suddenly drops. Carbohydrates spaces out the energy throughout the day.

Answer 6

Carbohydrates give us a large source of energy and we could not live without it!

Answer 7

they provide you with energy

Answer 8

Carbohydrates provide energy to the body.