ouch I just got down with a virus that included a sore throat,

now a couple of important things,

A) If you cough up phlegm or any other fluids SPIT THEM OUT there is a reason you cough them up and ALOT of people mistakingly swallow them down, just because its not a cold doesnt mean your coughing up somthing differant....

B) sit upright, that way the fluids can drain, its all about getting out the fluids...

C) RAMAN SOUP...lots of it, u get pasta which has that good kind of sugar ( I forgot the name) and soup...duh...

D) Try to prevent coughing as much as possible, coughing makes your throat raw and basically sore, your main goal right now is to prevent coughing.

Lastly, take showers, the steam calms and sooths your body/throat. Dont take a bath unless you really want to die.

Well im finnaly over this and it blew the doctors put me on some nasy liquid medication (looks like baby vomit) and I am feeling much better.

And yea ramen is like in the top 5 worst foods in the world isnt it?

I already said it:

Your "good" sugar is known as GLUCOSE- a CARBOHYDRATE (C6H12O6).

It is not important for growing at all, but it IS the number one source of energy.

What you need is WATER and VITAMINS

Wrong again:

Candy is bad for you at any time because candy is composed of another carbohydrate:

High Fructose Corn Syrup;

Fructose (like gluCOSE ...see the suffix similarities?) is a carbohydrate, but it is harder to burn, because of its geometric and biological shape.

If you want a long burning energy, you want protien; which is primarily for energy storage, but in need, will break down into energy

Glucose is the best sugar for you because its a simple sugar.  Bread is a simple sugar.

uh, I was referring to the sense of a 'long burning energy.'

It's not that fructose dosen't burn "long" its that it burns less efficiently

JumpOffMyRoof -- you're actually wrong too.

Fructose isn't any less efficient or take "longer" to burn than glucose at all. If you look at the biochemical pathways catalyzed by certain enzymes in the body, you will see that all chemical interactions are pretty much intertwined. In fact, fructose-6-phosphate and fruc-1,6-biphosphate are actually further down the chain of reactions in glycolysis so if anything it is easier to burn than glucose.

Glucose are just emphasized as important because the liver synthesizes it through gluconeogenesis which then supplies cells like the neurons in your brain with energy. And glycogen storage is important for energy storage especially for muscles. It's not like it burns or is metabolized faster or anything.

The BIGGEST distinctions that can be made are mainly between simple and complex carbohydrates which would be your sugars vs your starches for short and long term energy. The main difference between SUGARS would be if they are one vs muliple sugar molecules such as glucose vs sucrose. Sugars generally metabolize at nearly the same speed in eukaryotes though... with bacteria like E. Coli it's generally a different story as each one has to start producing different enzymes according to their environment to metabolize different carbohydrates.

I knew my biochem degree was good for something, rofl.

I didn't understand more then 5 words of that...