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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 1353493" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>She probably got the information from a Biochemistry text book like this:- <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/</a></p><p></p><p>The problem is that people remember the 120g carbohydrate per day but forget that glucose doesn't come solely from dietary carbohydrate - glucose can also be produced from non-carbohydrate substrates by gluconeogenesis in the liver. In addition, the brain requirement for glucose can be reduced (but not eliminated) if the brain becomes adapted to using ketone bodies as may happen during starvation.</p><p></p><p>The old units for energy were calories, the modern scientific unit is the Joule (often quoted as kilojoules or kJ in nutritional information on the side of packets).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 1353493, member: 52527"] She probably got the information from a Biochemistry text book like this:- [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/[/URL] The problem is that people remember the 120g carbohydrate per day but forget that glucose doesn't come solely from dietary carbohydrate - glucose can also be produced from non-carbohydrate substrates by gluconeogenesis in the liver. In addition, the brain requirement for glucose can be reduced (but not eliminated) if the brain becomes adapted to using ketone bodies as may happen during starvation. The old units for energy were calories, the modern scientific unit is the Joule (often quoted as kilojoules or kJ in nutritional information on the side of packets). [/QUOTE]
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