Why Calories Count For Weight Loss
Posted on December 10, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Calories do count! However pleasurable eating is, its real purpose is to provide the energy your body needs to maintain a constant temperature and perform its basic functions. Anything extra you do uses more calories. Any calories you consume that your body does not need are converted to body fat.
It’s as simple as that. The goal of this chapter is to help you understand what happens to food after it goes in your mouth. This should combat foolish or dangerous myths about food and weight loss.
The meaning of metabolism
Galactosemia Detailed Information
Posted on October 6, 2008 - Filed Under Health | Leave a Comment
Galactosemia is also very common in the Irish Traveller population. This is attributed to consanguinity within a relatively small gene pool.
Galactosemia is the lack of ability of the body to employ (metabolize) the simple sugar galactose, causing the buildup of galactose 1-phosphate in the body. It arises in about 1 out of every 60,000 births among Caucasians, while the rate is dissimilar for other groups. There are three forms of the disease include galactose-1 phosphate uridyl transferase lack (classic galactosemia, the most common and most severe form), deficiency of galactose kinase, and deficiency of galactose-6-phosphate epimerase. People with galactosemia are unable to completely break down the simple sugar galactose.
