Making Sense of Gluctose and Fructose

Posted August 6, 2007 at 03:00 PM by Shannon Clark

Section: In The News, His Health, Physical Health

Everyone is talking about carbohydrates these days - are they good or are they bad? And how much of them should you be consuming?  Which ones are going to cause the most trouble and which ones will actually help you? These are all questions that are running through many peoples’ minds in their pursuit towards achieving their fitness goals.

While there is no doubt that low carbohydrate diets can work great for some people, others will not feel good on them and they will need carbohydrates in order to function properly.  This does not mean that people who consume carbohydrates will not lose weight, however, they just need to learn the types of carbohydrates they should be consuming and when.

The important thing to note is that there are two main types of carbohydrate molecules: glucose and fructose.  Starch, a polymer of glucose (which means many glucose molecules linked together), is another form of carbohydrate you might have heard of before.  Because of its molecular structure, foods higher in starch take longer for the body to digest than foods equal in the number of calories and made up of glucose.

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