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To: MetaThought

Look it up. I’m REALLY tired of having to do this to PROVE that your LIVER produces glucose when your dietary intake is insufficient. When your liver does this, it produces an excess of glucose, which is then stored as fats around your liver and intestines.

Simply type “Liver produces glucose” in google search. it should provide a wiki pedia link which will give you the medical terms


26 posted on 04/09/2009 9:37:13 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

The Liver does not produce glucose from fat.

The Liver produces glucose from glycogen or amino acids.


27 posted on 04/09/2009 9:42:01 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: Nathan Zachary
When your liver does this, it produces an excess of glucose, which is then stored as fats around your liver and intestines.

In the human body glucose cannot be converted to fat and fat cannot be converted to glucose. It lacks the necessary enzymes. Excess glucose is stored as glycogen. The body can store about 3 days of glycogen. If the intake of carbohydrates exceeds this buffer size, the body shifts its substrate oxidation away from fat oxidation and toward glucose oxidation. This is in the context of a hypercaloric diet in which caloric intake exceeds caloric expenditure. This is why people get fat. There is no storage form of protein. There is limited storage of glucose as glycogen. There is relatively unlimited storage for fat. If one is taking in more energy than one expends, the body preferentially burns proteins and carbohydrates, the excess energy is stored as fat that comes almost entirely from the diet. If you were to take fat samples from your diet for a few months and compare it to stored fats in adipose tissue, you'd have an almost exact match.
29 posted on 04/09/2009 9:48:29 PM PDT by aruanan
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