American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 41, 881-890, Copyright © 1985 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Contribution of 500 g naturally labeled 13C dextrin maltose to total carbohydrate utilization and the effect of the antecedent diet, in man

KJ Acheson, A Thelin, E Ravussin, MJ Arnaud and E Jequier

Exogenous carbohydrate oxidation was studied for 24 h in 14 healthy young male volunteers after ingestion of 500 g naturally labeled 13C carbohydrate. Prior to the test, the antecedent diet was high in fat (4 subjects), mixed (4 subjects), or high in carbohydrate (6 subjects). The rate of exogenous carbohydrate oxidation was greater in the high carbohydrate and mixed diet groups than in the high fat group and endogenous carbohydrate continued to contribute to total carbohydrate oxidation for approximately 10 h after ingestion of the carbohydrate load in all groups. After 14 h, 178 +/- 5 g, 241 +/- 11 g and 260 +/- 9 g carbohydrate had been utilized of which 130 +/- 8 g, 155 +/- 6 g and 180 +/- 7 g was of exogenous origin in the high fat, mixed and high carbohydrate groups respectively. At the end of the test, postabsorptive glucose oxidation was of exogenous origin whatever the antecedent diet indicating that much of basal hepatic glucose production was covered by glycogenolysis of recently synthesized labeled glycogen.

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