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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Snoddy" data-source="post: 2386860" data-attributes="member: 112460"><p>All the food that we take in can be used as energy sources and fats provide roughly twice as much energy as proteins or carbohydrates. Carbohydrates can be digested to produce sugars. Simple sugars like sucrose (table sugar) are rapidly digested and absorbed, complex carbs like starch are digested more slowly.</p><p>Proteins are digested far more slowly and eventually do produce some glucose. This is why protein sources do not produce such rapid glucose spikes in the blood. When fats are broken down one of the products are fatty acids which can also be used as energy molecules. Hope this clarifies things for you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Snoddy, post: 2386860, member: 112460"] All the food that we take in can be used as energy sources and fats provide roughly twice as much energy as proteins or carbohydrates. Carbohydrates can be digested to produce sugars. Simple sugars like sucrose (table sugar) are rapidly digested and absorbed, complex carbs like starch are digested more slowly. Proteins are digested far more slowly and eventually do produce some glucose. This is why protein sources do not produce such rapid glucose spikes in the blood. When fats are broken down one of the products are fatty acids which can also be used as energy molecules. Hope this clarifies things for you! [/QUOTE]
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