On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ingrid Bauer wrote:

> >The critic is correct, and Neanderthin is wrong.  You can't turn
> >fats into glucose
>
> i don't understand that. what storing fats is good for if it is not used to
> be turned into glucose again.?

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.

Todd Moody
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