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<blockquote data-quote="Ruth B" data-source="post: 742156" data-attributes="member: 111960"><p>I can't claim to be an expert, but if I remember my biochemistry correctly then fats, proteins and starches can all be changed in to glucose, its just a matter of your body prioritising what it uses. Sugar is the easiest to make into glucose it is already most of the way there (glucose is a sugar). Starchy foods come next as most starches are made up of strings of sugar molecules. Fats can be made into glucose and vice versa. The body tends to store energy as fat for later use and then break it down into glucose when it needs it if you are burning more energy that you eat (what we try and do when dieting). Proteins are the final resort for making into glucose and if someone is actually starving the body will eventually turn its own muscles into glucose to try and stay alive in hope that food will become available.</p><p> </p><p>As far as the post exercise spike goes I would have thought that a small slow release starchy snack before hand might convince your body that it doesn't need to convert any reserves into energy to fuel the exercise. Not quite sure what to suggest, as you seem to prefer to get your carbs from veg maybe a small raw carrot chopped up would manage. I dont' know about football, but if possible eaten at intervals during the game might again help. Just a suggestion I don't have any real experience to base it on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruth B, post: 742156, member: 111960"] I can't claim to be an expert, but if I remember my biochemistry correctly then fats, proteins and starches can all be changed in to glucose, its just a matter of your body prioritising what it uses. Sugar is the easiest to make into glucose it is already most of the way there (glucose is a sugar). Starchy foods come next as most starches are made up of strings of sugar molecules. Fats can be made into glucose and vice versa. The body tends to store energy as fat for later use and then break it down into glucose when it needs it if you are burning more energy that you eat (what we try and do when dieting). Proteins are the final resort for making into glucose and if someone is actually starving the body will eventually turn its own muscles into glucose to try and stay alive in hope that food will become available. As far as the post exercise spike goes I would have thought that a small slow release starchy snack before hand might convince your body that it doesn't need to convert any reserves into energy to fuel the exercise. Not quite sure what to suggest, as you seem to prefer to get your carbs from veg maybe a small raw carrot chopped up would manage. I dont' know about football, but if possible eaten at intervals during the game might again help. Just a suggestion I don't have any real experience to base it on. [/QUOTE]
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