Nutrition Skeptic

Carbohydrates 101 By Alex Glover Carbohydrates, love them or hate them they have been a topic of controversy in the last few years as the media and public health look to find another nutrition bad guy. The 80s advocated low fat diets,  and now carbs are public enemy number one.  Carbohydrates are separated into 3 different types: monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides.  Mono- saccharides: Glucose, fructose, galactose Disaccharides- sucrose,maltose Polysaccharides- starch, glycogen, cellulose Glucose is the main fuel source for the brain and the body, and even during periods of fasting or carbohydrate restriction, the body can synthesise glucose from certain amino acids, glycerol and lactate. So even though glucose is an essential fuel source, dietary carbohydrates are not necessarily essential to consume. Fructose is commonly known as fruit sugar and like glucose is a monosaccharide, the only difference is the arrangement of the molecules as both gluco