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At 07:06 AM 1/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ingrid Bauer wrote:
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> > >The critic is correct, and Neanderthin is wrong. You can't turn
> > >fats into glucose
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> > i don't understand that. what storing fats is good for if it is not used to
> > be turned into glucose again.?
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>Your question assumes that stored fat is useful only if it can be
>turned into glucose. This is false. The stored fat can later be
>used as fuel, but doing so does not depend upon it being
>converted to glucose. When stored fat is used as fuel, it is
>used *as fat*. Again, there is no conversion of fat to glucose
>in the human body.
Stricly speaking, a trygliceride is made up of three fatty acids attached to a
glycerol 'backbone'. Isnt the glycerol converted to glucose? I seem to
remember
that these glycerols can contribute a substantial amount of glucose that is
particularly important when in ketosis.
Wade Reeser
>Todd Moody
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