Some people eat bacon double cheeseburgers every day.
Just because you like it's doesn't mean it's healthy.
Fat is sugar, right?
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Some people eat bacon double cheeseburgers every day.
Just because you like it's doesn't mean it's healthy.
Nor is it even in any way a bad thing for human adults, except for the lactose intolerant.
Even if you're not lactose intolerant, Lactaid is easier to digest.
http://www.lactaid.com/
http://www.lactaid.com/products/index.jhtml?id=lactaid/products/products.inc
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Chemically, sugars are hydrated carbon chains. That is a carbon chain C-C-C-C... (or a ring or -C-O-C- tautomer) with numerous -OH groups stuck on it. Typically the number of C is small, like 5 or 6, and a similar number of -OH groups.
Fats are triglycerides. These are a glycerol molecule C(-OH)-C(-OH)-C-(OH) esterified with three fatty acids.
Fatty acids are long messy carbon chains C-C-C-C, often with one or more double bonds -C=C- in there (unsaturated fats) terminating in one or more acid groups -C(=O)(-OH).
So no they're generally not the same thing, although there are some fatty acids which could be considered sugar-like, while glycerol is also a sugar. So yes in the sense that they are broken down into a sugar component (glycerol) and fatty acids.
The distinguishing feature between fatty acids and sugars is that with fatty acids, there are typically many more carbons than -OH groups, which gives them their hydrophobic properties (not dissolving in water). It is the abundance of -OH groups which makes sugars soluble in water.
It is the water solubility that makes sugars quick energy. Non water-soluble molecules have to be carried inside little "containers" in your blood stream, like cholesterol and oily vitamins do. That makes them slower to use, as they have to wait for the lollipop lady before crossing the road. Sugars can cross the road by themselves
Biologically, everybody has their own way of metabolizing fat and sugar. For some people, fat goes straight to their hips, while sugar is quickly burned and adds little to weight. For some people, most of the oil they consume seems to leech out through their skin, and sugar is what makes them put on weight. Sex hormones play a huge role in how fats are treated in soft tissue.
Cholesterol for example enters the body with consumed animal fats (they're hardly present in vegetable fats). Cholesterol is the chemical which our bodies uses to produce sex hormones, which directly affect our bodies metabolism of fats, which in turn aggravates more self-made cholesterol, alongside vitamin synthesis, and glycogen metabolism stuff that I never got around to finish reading.
Fats are triglycerides. These are a glycerol molecule C(-OH)-C(-OH)-C-(OH) esterified with three fatty acids.
Fatty acids are long messy carbon chains C-C-C-C, often with one or more double bonds -C=C- in there (unsaturated fats) terminating in one or more acid groups -C(=O)(-OH).
So no they're generally not the same thing, although there are some fatty acids which could be considered sugar-like, while glycerol is also a sugar. So yes in the sense that they are broken down into a sugar component (glycerol) and fatty acids.
The distinguishing feature between fatty acids and sugars is that with fatty acids, there are typically many more carbons than -OH groups, which gives them their hydrophobic properties (not dissolving in water). It is the abundance of -OH groups which makes sugars soluble in water.
It is the water solubility that makes sugars quick energy. Non water-soluble molecules have to be carried inside little "containers" in your blood stream, like cholesterol and oily vitamins do. That makes them slower to use, as they have to wait for the lollipop lady before crossing the road. Sugars can cross the road by themselves
Biologically, everybody has their own way of metabolizing fat and sugar. For some people, fat goes straight to their hips, while sugar is quickly burned and adds little to weight. For some people, most of the oil they consume seems to leech out through their skin, and sugar is what makes them put on weight. Sex hormones play a huge role in how fats are treated in soft tissue.
Cholesterol for example enters the body with consumed animal fats (they're hardly present in vegetable fats). Cholesterol is the chemical which our bodies uses to produce sex hormones, which directly affect our bodies metabolism of fats, which in turn aggravates more self-made cholesterol, alongside vitamin synthesis, and glycogen metabolism stuff that I never got around to finish reading.
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