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B1 Intermediate English 5:11 Educational

How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood

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B1

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Which of these has the least carbohydrates?

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This roll of bread?

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This bowl of rice?

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Or this can of soda?

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It's a trick question.

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Although they may differ in fats, vitamins, and other nutritional content,

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when it comes to carbs, they're pretty much the same.

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So what exactly does that mean for your diet?

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First of all, carbohydrate is the nutritional category for sugars

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and molecules that your body breaks down to make sugars.

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Carbohydrates can be simple or complex depending on their structure.

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This is a simple sugar, or monosaccharide.

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Glucose, fructose, and galactose are all simple sugars.

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Link two of them together, and you've got a disaccharide,

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lactose, maltose, or sucrose.

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Complex carbohydrates, on the other hand,

00:57

have three or more simple sugars strung together.

01:00

Complex carbohydrates with three to ten linked sugars

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