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Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn 1978 pp 1–31Cite as

Intermediary Metabolism During Normal Pregnancy

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Due to the intermittency of our eating pattern, all human intermediary metabolism can be subdivided into two broad categories: the fed state and the fasted state. The fed state begins whenever we eat and metabolic objectives are oriented to provide optimum utilization of ingested nutrients. The fasting state is initiated when levels of circulating fuels have returned to pre-eating values. Regulatory processes are then geared for the production of fuels from endogenous resources in a manner that is parsimonious and appropriate to prevailing energy needs (Freinkel, 1964a; Freinkel, 1969).

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    H. W. Sutherland

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Freinkel, N., Phelps, R.L., Metzger, B.E. (1979). Intermediary Metabolism During Normal Pregnancy. In: Sutherland, H.W., Stowers, J.M. (eds) Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn 1978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66972-9_1

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