However, when blood glucose levels fall during a long fast, the bodyâs glycogen stores dwindle and additional sources of blood sugar are required. To help make up this shortfall, the liver, along with the kidneys, uses amino acids, lactic acid and glycerol to produce glucose. This process is known as gluconeogenesis.
What is colour blindness? Colour (color) blindness (colour vision deficiency, or CVD) affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world. In Britain this means that there are approximately 2.7 million colour blind people (about 4.5% of the entire population), most of whom are male.
Although there are several forms of colour blindness, as Aaron Priven noted, the inability to distinguish red from green (red/green colour blindness, natch) is the most common condition. Probably around 5% of men in North America are red/green colour blind (compared to less than 1% of women).