Human Anatomy: importance of carbohydrates

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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.

Human Anatomy