by Hamna Qasim | Dec 30, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Introduction to Energy Homeostasis and Energy Balance Remember, it’s a critical topic that forms the basis for our understanding of weight gain and obesity. So let’s start by looking a bit more into the regulation of food intake. The energy balance is the balance...
by Hamna Qasim | Nov 11, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Use of Fatty Acids As Fuel From triglycerides to fatty acids Depending on whether you are in the fasted state or just consumed a heavy meal, most of the blood’s triglycerides are present either as VLDL or chylomicrons. The action of lipoprotein lipase bound to the...
by Hamna Qasim | Oct 10, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Lipid Metabolism The Ultimate Info Here, we’ll look at how the body processes dietary fat. The reason why it is essential is that we need to know what happens to dietary fat after we consume it so to link it with the specific effects in the body. Therefore, we...
by Hamna Qasim | Sep 28, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Fat Tissue Probably the most important nutritional problem in today’s society is obesity. Now, what is obesity? Essentially obesity is having too much fat in your body. Now, what is body fat? Body fat is composed of adipocytes or fat cells stored in...
by Hamna Qasim | Sep 10, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Intro to Lipids Image Source: microbenotes.com Do you know that fats/lipids are the same? Lipids are just a more fancy word. And we eat and also store fat. But what is fat really, how is it processed, and what’s the difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty...
by Hamna Qasim | Aug 16, 2020 | Food & Nutrition, Medical
Carbohydrates Now, what are carbohydrates? Is sugar a carbohydrate? Yep. What about starch? Well, starch is also part of the carbohydrates. Fibre? Fibre is also part of the carbohydrates, but a special kind as we’ll see. We’ll start by looking at the chemistry of...
