Tuesday, September 25, 2012

functional importance of carbohydrates

carbohydrates

Functional importance of carbohydrate
·         Ready source of energy .
·       -  It also constitutes the structural material of the organism.
·      -   Acts as important storage of food material of the body.
·    -     Protein and fat metabolized on the back ground of carbohydrate.
·        - It gives nutrition to the nervous tissue & retina.
·       -  It prevents ketosis.
·      -   Carbohydrate is a protein sparer, that is -carbohydrate is burned in preference to the burning of protein.  

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