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Dr Noodle, I agree that it is important to learn to use the web appropriately...However if you know nothing about a topic, you can't judge what is rubbish and what isn't!
Mostly, later at uni, you end up using medical search engines (e.g. PubMed, Medline, which give publications) rather than the web as such...The problem remains the same: lots of scientific papers have flaws, but if you don't know anything about a topic it's hard to tell what these are...So I usually tell students to start from the basics, get an overview first (or at a higher level, read some reviews - not just one, as they can be quite biased as well).
Regarding the coursework: I am not sure what sugars in particular you are looking at and I don't want to help too much :-) But it might be worth considering that some sugars can be broken down to or converted to glucose - the biochemistry textbook will give you an overview of metabolic pathways for the different sugars (respiration with these substrates will then be slower). It might be way too detailed for what you need, but in the metabolism section of most biochem textbooks there is a reasonable introductory chapter. A relatively simple textbook is by Elliott & Elliott, and also the baby Voet & Voet (think it's called "principles of biochemistry" or something like that, don't take the large version which is just called "biochemistry" and comes in two volumes). While I hate to recommend them, there's also Instant Notes in Biochemistry!
Pammy
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