The process of carbohydrate digestion starts in the mouth; the food then moves in to the stomach, and then to the small intestine. Food is digested preliminarily by enzymes, which are similar to ...

New research indicates that obesity in the general population may be genetically linked to how our bodies digest carbohydrates. People usually have two copies of the gene AMY1, but in some regions of ...

The body breaks simple and complex carbs into sugars and leaves fiber undigested. Some medical conditions can interrupt or affect how you digest carbs. Carbohydrates give the body energy to go about ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mutations in the gene encoding the enzyme sucrase-isomaltase, responsible for the digestion of small ...

New research indicates that obesity in the general population may be genetically linked to how our bodies digest carbohydrates. Published in the journal Nature Genetics, the study investigated the ...

Sucrase-isomaltase (SI) is an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of dietary carbohydrates, particularly sucrose and starch. Previous studies from the Gastrointestinal Genetics team at CIC ...

Objective: To examine whether high carbohydrate meals with different carbohydrate digestion rates have an effect on the short-term satiety in normal and obese preschool children. Subjects and setting: ...