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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Rickets disease and changes in rickets

Rickets

Rickets

Features of Rickets : 

Rickets

                 This occurs in children who are not exposed to sunlight and whose diet is deficient in vitamin D as well . Typically this was (it is no longer common in western world ) thus a disease of the poor European children .

The changes in rickets are follows :

·           In the bone , the calcium content is low and the bones becomes  therefore soft. Such bones bow when they bear weight as in femur and tibia.

·         The process of ossification in cartilaginous bone is retarded . Normally the cartilage is first calcified, then removed and then new bones are deposited. In rickets, the calcification of the cartilage is poor , the cartilage cells continue to proliferate and the shaft becomes broad and irregular.

Rarely the rickets may be due to disease ( destruction ) of the kidney ( renal rickets ).   

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