Category Archives: Fat

Protein Versus Carbohydrate Versus Fat: Energy Considerations

Altering the ratio of the macronutrients can have a strong influence on the prevailing metabolic energy balance because protein, carbohydrate and fat are metabolised quite differently. Postprandially, protein can increase thermogenesis by 25 to 40 %, glucose by 6 to … Continue reading

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Unsaturated Fatty Acids: Beyond Eicosanoids

Unsaturated fatty acids are those that possess a double bond within their structure. A monounsaturated fatty acids therefore has a single double bond, whereas the prefix ‘poly’ signifies multiple double bonds. Unsaturated oils are those that contain a predominance of … Continue reading

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Plasma Fatty Acids and Body Fat

ietary fat is digestion begins within the mouth and stomach by the action of salivary lipase, and is subsequently completed in the small intestine by the action of pancreatic lipase. This process is enhanced in the duodenum by the action … Continue reading

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Does Red Wine Decrease Fat Absorption?

Nutrient interactions in mammalian digestive systems are incredibly complex. A myriad of factors influence the digestive rates and absorption of nutrients required for health. Interest in the factors that can influence nutrient absorption has grown in recent years because evidence … Continue reading

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High Fat Diets are Healthy

he recent advice to limit intakes of dietary fat has been a disaster for health. Medical recommendations to lower fat and cholesterol intakes, based on the erroneous cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease, have caused an epidemic of obesity in Western … Continue reading

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Low Fat Diets: More Problems

ow fat diets have become popular because of the false belief that saturated fat is able to cause detrimental changes to plasma lipoprotein levels. In addition dietary fat is seen by many as the cause of weight gain, and this … Continue reading

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More on Abdominal Obesity

Metabolic syndrome is the name given to a group of metabolic disorders that can severely affect the cardiovascular system through excessive production of free radicals generated via systemic inflammation. Abdominal fat accumulates in metabolic syndrome because of nutrient overload within … Continue reading

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A Calorie is not a Calorie: More Evidence, This Time Nuts

The ‘eat-too-much, do-too-little’ hypothesis of obesity states that weight gain is a result of too much food or too little exercise. These conditions, it is claimed, cause a positive energy balance that results in fat accumulation. In support of this … Continue reading

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Quality Nutrition and Balance

It is clear from the nutritional literature that there is no magic bullet to reverse the epidemic of diet-related diseases that have started to affect so many. Lifestyle conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity have multi-factorial aetiologies, … Continue reading

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Incretin Secretion

Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) are incretin hormones secreted in response to food in the gut. These hormones are able to potentiate the glucose stimulated release of insulin in a response called the incretin effect. The … Continue reading

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