Lesson 3: Understanding the Utilization of Glucose Throughout the Body Preview CT-STEM

Analyzing the Data: Organ/Tissue by Weight

To understand how much energy each of your organs/tissues actually uses, we need to determine how large each organ actually is (what % of your total body weight). With this information, we can then calculate the ratio of % energy consumption to % of total body weight.

Organ or Tissue	Weight (lbs)
Adipose (fat)	33
Muscle	62.17
Liver	3.96
Brain	3.08
Heart	0.66
Kidney	0.66
Other	51.5
TOTAL	155.03

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 4.1

Why is it helpful to know what percent of total body weight each organ comprises? Why is this important to compare to % energy consumption?

Question 4.2

Use the data table above to calculate how much each organ/tissue represents as part of our total body weight (i.e. what proportion is each organ of our total). Again, record this information in your notebook for your final calculation and revision of your glucunculus.

Notes

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