Thus from the lungs in the form of dioxid of carbon-the same gas that comes from burning of coal or oil-there escapes most of the waste material resulting from the destruction in the system of fats, Sugars, starch, and such other foods as are wanting in the element nitrogen, and do not form fibrous tissues, but go mainly to support animal heat or maintain functional activity.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
It also turns both Sugars and proteins in the portal blood into fat, part of which it pours into the blood, and part of which it stores away also in its own cells.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Thus we see what a close relation there is between starch and sugar, and why the group we are studying is sometimes called the starch-Sugars.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson