Ever wonder how a cow can survive, get fat and produce milk on a diet of grass? A cow’s specialized stomach with 4 compartments can digest the cellulose in plants and use those nutrients. Unfortunately, we humans aren’t able to digest cellulose. Cellulose is just sugar molecules linked together, but we cannot break the type of bond in [...]
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What are Medium Chain Triglycerides? Dietary fats are made up of carbon chains, and these can be anywhere from 2 – 22 carbon atoms long. Most of the fatty acids in Western diets are long chain, with 12 or more carbons in the chain. Medium chain fatty acids have between 6 and 10 [...] Recently I have been listening to the Jack Aubrey / Steven Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. They are a British captain from the Royal Navy and his ship’s surgeon, in the early 1800′s. There was a blockbuster movie, "Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World", which came out a few years ago. [...] |
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