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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by tkyjonathan on Friday January 05, 2018 @08:34AM (#16078412)
Depends how much you cut back. I think your body/brain needs 120g of glucose a day. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22436/
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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by eisrep on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:51AM (#16079704)
The body can produce the amount of glucose it needs through converting proteins using Gluconeogenesis. Dietary intake of carbohydrates/glucose is not necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by tkyjonathan on Sunday January 07, 2018 @01:08PM (#16091830)
I don't think you went over that medical summary I provided: Fatty acids do not serve as fuel for the brain, because they are bound to albumin in plasma and so do not traverse the blood-brain barrier. In starvation, ketone bodies generated by the liver partly replace glucose as fuel for the brain.
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Re:What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories? by maxxxxx on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:05AM (#16079396)
There is almost zero risk not getting enough sugar these days. That's not something to worry about.
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