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Carbohydrates
How your body uses Carbs
Functions of Carbs
The Index
Misc.
100
List the three kinks of carbohydrates.
What is Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Polysaccharides.
100
What is the purpose of having Carbohydrates in your body?
What is to have energy.
100
What do carbs produce?
What is energy
100
What is the Glycemic Index?
What is a measure of the speed at which carious carbs are digested into glucose, absorbed, and enter the bloodstream.
100
How many calories does one gram of carbohydrates have?
What is 4 calories.
200
What is Glucose also known as?
What is blood sugar.
200
What helps the body lower blood glucose back to a normal level?
What is Insulin.
200
What do carbs spare
What is proteins
200
What does pure glucose do?
What is raising glucose levels more quickly than other carbohydrates.
200
Name 3 starchy foods
What is pasta, bread, potato, rice, etc.
300
What are the three disaccharides?
What is Sucrose, Lactose, and Maltose.
300
What are chemicals produced in the body and released into the bloodstream to regulate specific body processes?
What is Hormones.
300
What do carbs break down
What is fats
300
Foods with lower GI result in what?
What is Slower, less dynamic increases in blood glucose levels.
300
What is dental caries?
What is tooth decay.
400
What are the two types of sugars?
What is natural and refined?
400
What is Glycogen?
What is the body's storage form of glucose.
400
Provide what in the diet?
What is bulk
400
What might the GI be helpful to preventing?
What is chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.
400
The risk of dental caries depends on what two main factors?
What is the types of foods you eat and when you eat.
500
What type of carbohydrate is Starch?
What is a polysaccharide.
500
What is the feeling of fullness you have after eating food?
What is satiety.
500
provide ? caleries per gram?
What is 4
500
What has a higher GI level? A plain piece of white bread or a piece of white bread with peanut butter on it?
What is a piece of white bread with peanut butter on it.
500
Name the vocabulary word. An inability for digest lactose, the main carbohydrate in milk.
What is lactose intolerance