Healthy B.P.M.

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Test your medical knowledge by taking this quiz. Your score appears at the bottom of the page after you press the ‘Submit’ button. For the answers that are incorrect, the check box next to the question will have a tick mark.

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1. What is a carb composed of?

Carbs are the most commonly found biological molecules and are composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The simplest carbohydrate is glucose.

2. How many kinds of carbs are there?

Simple carbs: Glucose, fructose and galactose are simple carbs and are also called monosaccharides. These are sugars and can absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the intestine lining.

Lactose, sucrose and maltose are disaccharides as they contain two monosaccharides.These are easily converted to their monosaccharide bases in the digestive tract.

Complex Carbohydrates: are chains of glucose molecules(polysaccharides) and are commonly known as starch. A complex carb is broken down into simpler units in the digestive tract so that it can be absorbed as glucose into the bloodstream. These kind of carbs show up in your pasta, bread, potatoes, etc.

3.What does a carb do in your body?

Blood sugar or Glucose is a good thing in the right amount. The cells in the body absorb glucose and turn it into energy.Carb roles in the body include the storage and transport of energy (starch, glycogen) and structural components (cellulose in plants, chitin in animals).Carbs also play a role in the immune system, fertilization, pathogenesis, blood clotting and overall development.

4. What is glycemic index?

The glycemic index is a measure of how fast and how much blood sugar rises after you eat a carb food.

5. What’s wrong with having a low-carb diet?

Low-carb diets are dietary programs that promote a restricted carb diet. As certain carbs can raise insulin levels, causing metabolic syndrome and triggering off a host of problems including obesity, a controlled diet is believed to be able to alter this cause and effect process. In this kind of a diet you have more emphasis on protein and fiber consumption.

Advocates of this diet believe that even the paleolithic and Innuit diets are relatively starch free. Western obesity is proof of what high -carb diets can do. The flip side is that low-carb diets are not necessarily balanced enough and although no side effect has been reported, there is a lot of skepticism about having a diet low in carb since it could fuel a diet higher in saturated fat(due to the focus on fatty foods rich in protein).

6. When’s the best time to have carbs in your diet?

After your work out.

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I hope you enjoyed the Protein Quiz.

There’s a lot of talk about low-carb diets knocking off the pounds. Having some carb know-how will help before you give it up completely.

1. What is a carb composed of?

2. How many kinds of carbs are there?

3.What does a carb do in your body?

4. What is glycemic index?

5. What’s wrong with having a low-carb diet?

6. When’s the best time to have carbs in your diet?

Happy answering! Answers tomorrow….

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I hope the protein quiz was not too difficult.

Here are the answers:

*Protein deficiency disease

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*Why do high-protein, low-carb diets seem to work more quickly than low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets?

High-protein foods slow the movement of food from the stomach to the intestine; so you feel full longer. When you have protein, there is no steep rise in blood sugar and so you don’t get those hunger pangs too soon.

*Does a vegetarian diet provide you with protein?

Yes incomplete protein…having the right protein package is important when you are vegan.

*Where do you find protein in you body?

Everywhere.Muscle, bone, skin, hair, enzymes that power many chemical reactions, the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood, and the immune system. Proteins are shaped like necklaces composed of the building blocks called amino acids. Like the alphabets, these amino acids string up to create vital proteins.Of the 22 amino acids, your body can make 13 of them;we get the the other nine amino acids from the foods we eat.

*How much protein should you have in a day?

60 gms a day for an adult

• 2 to 3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, and fish (a portion about the size of a deck of playing cards)
• 1/2 cup of cooked dry beans, lentils, or legumes
• 1 egg or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, which count as 1 ounce of lean meat

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Do you know your protein? Well we all talk about going a high-protein diet and the benefits of having a protein shake or having nuts(again high on protein). But we don’t really know a lot of things about protein.

I’m doing a short quiz on protein. See if you know the answers. I’ll post them tomorrow.

*Name a protein deficiency disease.

*Why do high-protein, low-carb diets seem to work more quickly than low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets?

*Does a vegetarian diet provide you with protein?

*Where do you find protein in you body?

*What does protein do?

*How much protein should you have in a day?

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