Chapter 4: The Carbohydrates
Answer the following questions with your group members. Work needs to be typed.
1. What do carbs do for the body?
2. What is the difference in digestible and indigestible carbs?
3. What are the 2 types of carbs?
4. Where do carbs come from?
5. a. What is the name for a single and double sugar?
b. How many are in each group
c. What are they called?
6. How does the body get monosaccharides and disaccharides?
7. What are polysaccharides?
8. What is starch?
9. Where do plants store their extra sugar?
10. What is glycogen?
11. What is fiber?
12. How can people loose extra fat instead of cutting out the carbs from their diets?
13. How does fiber benefit the body?
14. How much fiber do most adults need?
15. What is lactose intolerance?
16. When there is not enough carbs in the body where does the body get the carbs from?
17. What are the 2 problems associated with not getting enough carbs?
18. What happens when a person does not have enough glucose?
19. What happens when a person has too much glucose?
20. What happens to excess glucose in the body?
21. What is diabetes?
a. What are the 2 types?
b. How does obesity underline type 2 diabetes?
c. How can type 2 diabetes be prevented?
22. What is hypoglycemia?
23. What does the enriched/fortified mean?
24. What does refined mean?
25. What is the U.S. Enrichment Act of 1942?
Bazikyan/ Fall 2009