How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

Re:How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain by tomjakubowski on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:57PM (#18232687)

Glucose and fructose are both monosaccharides - also known as "simple sugars".

Sucrose, "table sugar", is a disaccharide of one glucose group and one fructose group.

"Complex carbohydrate" is ill-defined, but I guess could refer to polymeric saccharides, a classification which wouldn't apply to sucrose, glucose, or fructose. In any case, you'd need a strange perspective to see glucose as a "complex carbohydrate": it's only got six carbon atoms.

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Re:How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain by justinator on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:59PM (#18232705)

> Glucose and fructose are both monosaccharides - also known as "simple sugars".

Point taken.

The metabolism of the two are still, very different (glucose and fructose)

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