Questão 18 - UniRV APARECIDA 2024/2

Glucose is our body’s preferred source of energy. Every cell in our body uses glucose to perform its function: our lung cells to breathe, our brain cells to think, our heart cells to pump blood, our eye cells to see, and so on. Glucose is important. And the main way we provide our bodies with glucose is by eating it. Glucose is found mostly in foods we call “carbohydrates” (or “carbs”): starchy foods (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes) and sugary foods (fruit, sweets, desserts).

You may think that if we need glucose for energy, more glucose will give us more energy, so we should try to eat as many sugary and starchy foods as possible, right? Actually, that’s not the case: a plant needs some water to live, but if you give it too much it dies. In the same way, give a human too much glucose and bad things start happening. When we deliver too much glucose too quickly to our body during a meal, we experience what is called a glucose spike. This is not something that only affects people with diabetes. Most of us experience glucose spikes (about 80% of the population, according to some US estimates), and unfortunately, these spikes carry with them consequences that can harm both our physical and our mental health. (INCHAUSPE, Jessie. The Glucose Goddess Method: Your four-week guide to cutting cravings, getting your energy back, and feeling amazing. With 100%2B super easy recipes (p. 19). New River. Edição do Kindle).

 

Assinale V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) para as alternativas de acordo com o texto:

 

( ) A autora aponta a importância da glicose para o funcionamento de nossas células, mas no final do trecho acima, ela alerta para os riscos dos picos de glicose no organismo.

( ) Mantendo um tom formal e uma linguagem científica, o texto apresenta estimativas estatísticas de organizações norte-americanas.

( ) A autora contradiz o raciocínio de que devemos fazer uma maior ingestão de glicose para obtermos níveis mais altos de energia.

( ) O sufixo “-y” ajuda na formação de adjetivos, como em “sugary” e “starchy”, mas esse não é o caso em “many”, “actually” e “try”.