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What are simple carbohydrates?

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They contain one or two molecules.

Company refered to as sugars.

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What is glucose?

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The most abundant carbohydrate produced by plants through photosynthesis

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What is an example of a monosaccharide?

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Glucose, fructose, galactose

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What are examples of disaccharides?

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Lactose maltose and sucrose

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What are complex carbohydrates?

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Oligosaccharides- 3 to 10 monosaccharides

Polysaccharides- hundreds of monosaccharides

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What is starch?

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A complex carbohydrate

Found in plants

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What is glycogen?

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A complex carbohydrate

Storage form of glucose

found in humans and animals

Stored in the liver a muscles
It is not found in food therefore it is not a source if dietary carbohydrate

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Is fiber digestible?

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No

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What are soluble fibers?

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Fifer that dissolves in water.

Is fermentable digested by intestinal bacteria

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What are insoluble fibers?

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They can not be digested by the bacteria in the colon.

However they promote regular bowl movements

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True or false
Carbohydrate digestion occurs in the stomach?

What dose break down carbohydrates?

A

False

Salivary alamase

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Where dose the most chemical digestion of carbohydrates occur?

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The small intestine.

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What is our primary source of energy?

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Glucose circulating in our blood

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All mono carbides are converted to glucose by the liver…

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True

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14
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What are some hormones that control blood glucose levels?

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Glycogen
Insulin
Epinephrine 
Cortisol
Growth hormone
Norepinephrine
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Where is glycogen produced

A

The liver

16
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Where is insulin produced?

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The pancreas

Secreted by beta cells

17
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What dose glucagon do?

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It is produced by alpha cells

Stimulates the liver to turn glycogen in to glucose

Stimulates gluconeogenesis- the production of glucose from amino acids

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What is gluconeogenesis?

A

The production of glucose from amino acids

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What are epinephrine and norepinephrine secreted by?

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The adrenal gland

They release glucose in to the blood

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What do both cortisol and growth hormone do?

A

They are secreted by the adrenal gland and they increase gluconeogenesis

And decrease muscle glucose

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What is the glycemic index?

A

A foods potential to raise blood glucose

How quickly a food raises your glucose level.

Rice crispy treats!

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What is the glycemic load?

A

Determins the effect of a food on a persons glucose response.

23
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What is ketosis?

A

Caused by not eating

Fat breakdown during fasting forms of ketones

Excess ketones increase blood acidity and cause ketosis

You can smell it on there breath

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What secrets bile?

A

The gallbladder

25
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How much carbohydrates should we have in a day?

A

139g/day

26
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What is an enriched food

A

When nutrients were lost during processing and added back in

27
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What is a fortified food?

A

Food that did not naturally have the nutrient and it was added in

28
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What is a nutritive sweetener?

A

Contains 4kcal of energy per gram

Honey, brown sugar, fructose

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What is a non-nutritive sweetener?

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Provide little to no energy

Splenda

30
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What is diabetes type 1?

A

A body deficiency
(Auto immune)

Your body dose not produce enough insulin

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What is type 2 diabetes?

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An insulin insensitivity

You take in too much sugar and now your body dose not sense sugar

32
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What is metabolic syndrome?

A

A cluster of factors that increase your risk for type 2 diabetes

33
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What is hypoglycemia?

A

Low blood sugar

34
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What is reactive hypoglycemia?

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Your body is producing too much insulin causing you to have low blood sugar.