NUSC 1165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, Hyperglycemia
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Glycemic response: sugar in your blood after you"ve eaten something. How quickly and how high your blood glucose levels rises after you consume carbohydrates. When you constantly have high blood sugar, glucose gets added to proteins and they begin to stop working. Glycemic index: is a ranking of how a food affects glycemic response at a set amount of. Glycemic load: takes into account glycemic index and amount of digestible carbohydrates. Blood glucose is highly regulated by liver and pancreas (which produces hormones). The pancreatic hormones include insulin (secreted by beta cells) to lower blood sugar and glucagon to increase blood sugar (secreted by alpha cells). Cellular respiration is the process of breaking down glucose. (glycolysis, electron. Symptoms of blood sugar are confusion, seizures and coma. Even with low carbohydrate is low, blood sugar is maintained because it fuels brain. Gluconeogenesis: liver makes glucose from amino acids. Ketogenesis: liver makes ketones to spare protein and glucose.
