Dana Carpender wrote:
> Krusty wrote:
>
> > "Dana Carpender" > wrote
> >
> >>Except that they are exactly that -- inessential.
> >
> >
> > 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.

The body can make proteins. It can make half the amino acids it needs
to make proteins and get the other half from a diet of nothing but
grains and beans. Does that magically make that diet perfect? No. It
just demonstrates - as does gluconeogenesis - how adaptable humans are.

Carmen