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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
Heard of the Atkins diet? Thats one thing.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
hmmm.. good point. Cheers. So that wud be weight loss. Kay, one left.
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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
I was referring more to ketosis.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
which is?

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
It's when your metabolism screws up causing a buildup of ketones in your body... which makes you sluggish and low on energy... at least do a google search on the word, she's given you a good scientific term but she's not gonna write the essay for you.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
cool. Cheers for all the help.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
Sorry I'm not much help with the info but I can't help but reword things





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Should a person only obtain a small amount of carbohydrate in their diet, they may feel tired, or low on energy. This is becuase carbohydrates form the main source of energy in a normal diet.

Also, the person would expect to feel tired quicker. A person participating in aerobic excersice who has an abnormal intake of carbohydrates would experiance fatigue quicker as oposed to a person with a normal intake.



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and i didn't even use google

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005
thanks Aimee!Ur a big help. My phrasing has always been crap!

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
FRD, this might help you, although it's not the best wikipedia page in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrates

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbohydrate_diet

Good luck

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
you could go on about respiratory quotients (RQ values)? I'l blurb on anyway just incase your interested...(I'll do anything to stop me thinking about homework)

A respiratory substrate is the organic substance (i.e it naturally contains carbon) which forms the starting point for respiration. Basicly the respiratory substrate is the main diet for an organism, e.g. uuurm weasels may just eat eggs from birds nests so they may have a protein respiratory substrate. One way we can get an idea of an organisms respiratory substrate is to calculate its RQ. This is calculated by dividing the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the organism by the amount of oxygen consumed by the organism (human in this case) in a particular time. The RQ value is different for different diets. If a person was living on just fats (triglycerides) then the RQ would be 0.7, if they were living on purely proteins and amino acids it would be 0.9, and if they were liking on just carbs it would be close to 1. You could go on about the less carbs you eat the lower the RQ value perhaps?

You could say that glucose (broken down from carbs) is essential for respiration of cells. The liver helps regulate glucose levels in the blood and so when it finds low levels it compensates by either converting glycogen (a substance thats produced from glucose when you have too glucose in your much in your blood...if that makes sense?), stored in the liver back into glucose (this is called glycogenolysis if you wanna impress them), or by converting non-carbhydrate substances such as amino acids(or proteins) and fats(like glcerol) into glucose (this bits called gluconeogenesis). Gluconeogenesis is what happens in the atkins diet I think. You're blood has a low glucose concentration, so your liver makes glucose out of other organic substances like your fat storage. Anyway...hope this has helped a lil...If you need any more help, PM me cos I need an excuse not to do homework

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
Weee! Lots of help! Cheers every1! IVe now finished the whole paper andI am handing it in at 3.30 today!
With all this help, It should at least get a merit for it! Yipee!

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
Three things? That's a bit...vauge.

1) Decreased insulin secretion
2) Increased gluconeogenesis (production of glucose) in the liver
3) Ketosis (production of ketones)

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
Yeah, but its only one question out of loads and loads!

Cheers 4 the help.

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