Krusty wrote:

> "Dana Carpender" > wrote
>
>>Except that they are exactly that -- inessential.
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>
> Cite?
>
> This I gotta see.
>
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking...eogenesis.html

The body is perfectly capable of making glucose with no dietary
carbohydrate whatsoever. That makes carbohydrates inessential by
definition.

Dana