On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Phosphor wrote:

> is the conversion one-to-one or less efficient, ie how many grams of amino
> acids it takes to produce one gram of glucose?

I don't know.  A good online source for information about this
stuff is http://www.zonehome.com/met/

Incidentally, this article explains how we need, on average,
about 180g of glucose per day.

> so the main difference between a long fast and a very low-card diet is
> simply that in the fast amino acids are cannibalised from skin and muscle
> tissue instead of acquired through food?

Yes, I think that's right.

> if in low fat diets ketones are excreted as a by-product of fatty acid
> metabolism, is there any significant by-product - healthy or unhealthy -
> from amino-acid gluconeogenesis?

I don't know the answer.

Todd Moody
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