Re: diets

Susan wrote:
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Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

No, it doesn't really. Please be careful with shortcuts in descriptions of medical issues, because they confuse the tar out of people.

The carbohydrates break down to glucose quite readily and normally for diabetics. The body has trouble using glucose.

Failure to metabolize properly involves a whole series of metabolic processes, including the efficient delivery and use of nutrients facilitated by insulin receptors, for example.

Susan

Call it that: many people hearing the word 'metabolize', for example, will think in terms of digestion. Since the failure is pretty specific, namely the failure to "metabolize" glucose and glucose specifically, please refer to it specifically. And there's only one 'nutrient' facilitated by insulin receptors. It's called 'glucose'.

I'm not objecting to your overall point, I'm just concerned about your language misleading a casual reader.
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