Monthly Archives: September, 2015
Class on Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Questions from the Class: What are the ULs for vitamin D and selenium? The ULs for vitamin D and selenium are both about 7 times the RDA. This can be seen from the tables in the front cover of the 3rd edition of the text. Why are fat and gas similar? Fat and gasoline are …
Questions Concerning the Dietary Assignment, September 23, 2015
I received these great questions concerning the dietary assignment. The answers are below. “Hello Professor! I am just working on the Dietary Assignment and I had a couple of questions: 1) So when you say something needs to be “on one side of one page,” you mean that you want it to be a single …
More on Glucose and Diabetes, September 23, 2015
Last time I gave more information on glucose transporters in order to answer two questions that were asked in class. There was another question that was asked by a student that I couldn’t think of the answer right away. The question was, “Why does the intestinal brush border glucose transporter requires sodium as a co-transporter?” …
Class on Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Last class I discussed glucose transport into the enterocyte and how it required sodium co-transport. Then later on I was talking about glucose transport into muscle and how it was regulated by insulin. Then a student asked if the transporter in muscle was the same transporter as in intestine. Wow! What a great question! Then …
Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates, September 18, 2015
In order to learn about nutrition in the body, we need to know about all the different metabolic processes. One can ask the questions, “Is sugar bad for you? If so, why?” As we will find out, these are very complex questions. And we need to know how glucose is handled by the body in …
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