Knowing Your Lipids Intake (Part 3)

Knowing Your Lipids Intake (Part 3)

Use of Fatty Acids As Fuel From triglycerides to fatty acids Whether you are in a fasted state or just consumed a heavy meal, most of the blood’s triglycerides are either VLDL or chylomicrons. The action of lipoprotein lipase bound to the wall of capillaries in the...
Knowing Your Lipids Intake (Part 2)

Knowing Your Lipids Intake (Part 2)

Lipid Metabolism The Ultimate Info Here, we’ll look at how the body processes dietary fat. It is essential because we need to know what happens to dietary fat after consuming it to link it with the specific effects on the body. Therefore, we need to track it and...
White and Brown Fat

White and Brown Fat

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...
Carbohydrates ~ What are they?

Carbohydrates ~ What are they?

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...