Originally posted by Scrapper.814
<FONT style=": #5574a0">I'm new to this site. I've been Type 2 diabetic for at least 12 years. I need a better understanding of carbs. |
carbs are one form of fuel used by your body.
This fuel enables cells to do what they do.
As in life, not much gets done without some sort of payment to push it along.
Lets say you want to grow hair.
Hair follicles make hair.
They need energy to do this, as without energy, nothing gets done.
Yeah, it's a union job.
The hair follicles will say, "give me some money or we ain't gonna do it".
So you have to pay the hair follicles with some dollar bills.
In the body , the dollar bill accepted by most cells is often the dollar of carbohydrates.
These carb dollars come from meals, storage compartments and also from the liver.
Anyway, like vending machines, the cells are happiest when accepting single dollar bills.
One can approach with large bills or singles.
The large bills will be considered like complex carbs, the singles like glucose.
If you put in a large (complex) 20 dollar paper bill, it will need to get broken down.
The machine will break it down into 20 single units (simpler units).
To continue the analogy, a $20 dollar bill is considered a complex carb, and a $1 dollar bill is considered a simple carb.
if you eat complex carbs, they need to get broken down and converted to the simpler version, that is glucose.
However, a point worth mentioning ... is that your body will not give back fuel as "change".
That is, if you put in $20 dollars of food fuel, that input is gone.
It will get broken down, and either used or stored.
But none is given back as "change".
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Anyway, that's a beginning to understanding carbs.
Edited by gpaul7 - 02 Jul 2010 at 8:03pm
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