On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Kenny Brown wrote:

> I don't have a degree in Biochem either, but have been
> doing some reading and found that in fact(as my source
> suggests)..."short and medium chain fatty acids and
> glycerol are passively absorbed and travel directly to
> the liver, where they are used for energy or
> synthesized into new triglycerides (glycerol may
> become glucose), which are encapsulated with protien
> and delivered to the circulation."

The critic is correct, and Neanderthin is wrong.  You can't turn
fats into glucose.  The editors at St. Martins should have
spotted this.  If few or no carbs are eaten, it is protein that
supplies the needed glucose for those cells that must have it.

Todd Moody
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