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Carbohydrate Fuel Factor: 4kcal/g
Fat Fuel Factor: 9kcal/g
Protein Fuel Factor: 4kcal/g
Carbohydrates are the preferred source of energy and used quickly. Fat is then a backup source of energy when carbohydrate fuel availability is insufficient. Protein fuel is used when both carbohydrate and fat available fuel is inadequate; however, it is a less efficient back up source.
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Is it true or false that carbohydrates are the nutrients that should be the body's main source of energy?
The body can utilize protein, carbohydrates and fat for fuel.
What food group is the most important as a fuel source?
Carbohydrates are the most important fuel source in your diet, except when you live on the north pole. In your body, you have fat as a most important fuel source. You have about 300 grams of carbohydrates is stored in your body and ten to twenty kilos of fat is stored there.
Preferred fuel for most body functions?
There is some debate as to whether carbohydrates or fats are the body's preferred fuel. However, the body will burn carbohydrates in the form of glucose before it burns fat.
Can brown fat convert fat into carbohydrates?
Fat is burned into carbohydrates yes.
What happens when the body uses fat for fuel without the help of carbohydrates?
The result is the production of ketone bodies
What functions do carbohydrates perform?
Carbohydrates provide the body with energy for working muscles, provide fuel for the central nervous system, enable fat metabolism, and prevent protein from being used as energy. Carbohydrates are the preferred source of energy or fuel for muscle contraction and biologic work.
What does the body do with carbohydrates and fat?
drain the fat
What are nutrients that store vitamins?
micronutrients include the vitamins and minerals. macronutrients include carbohydrates, fats and protiens and no fat is not bad for you (to much fat can cause problems though) (but fat still is nessasary, it can be converted into carbohydrates which is the bodies main source of fuel, and it also stores vitamins A,E,D and K)
The time the body takes to change carbohydrates into fat?
When you intake excess carbohydrates than you required it is turned to fat. Not only carbohydrates, proteins will also turns to fat if taken in excess. But there are times when carbohydrates won't change to fat. These are post workout meal and breakfast.
What stores carbohydrates in animals?
Excess carbohydrates are stored as fat.
What food has no carbohydrates and no protein and high fat?
FAT!
What carbohydrate do for your body?
carbohydrates breaks down to polysachorides->mono...-sugar> energy for the body to run => fuel of energy biol.242
