Carbohydrates

Today's Medical Topic:  Carbohydrates AKA carbs.

Off the Top of My Head:  Any dieter will tell you that carbs are the devil but that simply isn't true.  Carbohydrates are your body's most easily accessible form of energy and carbs exist in different forms and quantities throughout your body and not all of them make you fat.  Let's look at the basic carbs we use.

100% Carbs right there.

My Research Today:  Used as structural material and energy sources by your body carbohydrates are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.  Here is your big word for the day:  Saccharides which is another word for carbohydrates.  Saccharides come in three basic categories which are boring as hell but let's do this anyways.

• Monosaccharides consist of single carb molecules.  The most basic and prevalent of these in your body is glucose. There are other monosaccharides too but I don't wanna talk about them.
• Disaccharides consist of two of the monosaccharides covalently bonded to each other.  Sucrose for example is table sugar and is one glucose molecule bonded with a fructose molecule.
• Finally polysaccharides, also known as "complex carbs" in the dieting world are innumerable monosaccharides bonded together. Starches and cellulose are among polysaccharides.  Glycogen  is a complex of thousands of glucose molecules that is stored in our skeletal muscles and liver for immediate energy release.

Damn carbon is responsible for damn near everything. Look at it there with 4 electrons in it's outer shell like a bitch.

So carbs do all kinds of things for us including making some of us sick.  Lactose is a carb found in milk and is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose.  People who are lactose intolerant have difficulty processing galactose which is why they get the stomach pain and the mud butt.

Now that's the kind of mud butt I'm talking about!

So as you can see, it isn't that carbs are bad it is just the kind of carbs and the quantity that we consume that can be bad.  Too much simple carbs turn into fat.  Everything in moderation.  Holy crap this is boring.  I need to start studying something else.  Have a good night everyone.

Quest to 180:

Activity Today: Nothing
Diet today:  My gum is still killing me, I really can't eat much.


The MAN:
Confidence Level:  Meh.
Social Engineering Tactics:  Nothing

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Disclaimer:  I am not a health care provider, any information presented in this blog should not be considered advice it is mearly an outlet to slake my curiosity.  You should always consult your primary medical provider for any concerns or illness.  Unlike Tylenol, I am not approved by the FDA or American Medical Association to treat or provide relief for any ailment.