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Human Nutrition Exam 2 with || || || || ||




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Role of Lipids: - Correct answer ✔- Energy stores
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- Muscle fuel
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- Emergency reserve
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- Padding
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- Insulation
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- Cell membranes
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- Raw Materials = Vitamins, hormones
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Primary storage form of carbohydrate in animals (2000 kcals) - Correct answer
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✔Glycogen



Average person stores about ________ kcals as fat! - Correct answer ✔100,000
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Properties of Lipids: - Correct answer ✔- Do not readily dissolve in water
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- Fats are solid at room temperature
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- Oils are liquid at room temperature
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- Triglycerides are the main form of lipids in food and body (Storage)
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- Energy dense (9 kcal/ gm)
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The Lipids: - Correct answer ✔- Triglycerides (95% of lipids in foods and bodies)
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- Phospholipids (Lecithin)
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- Sterols (Cholesterol)
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Saturated Fat: - Correct answer ✔- No double bonds || || || || || || || ||




- Solid at room temperature
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- Animal fats (Lard)
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- Some plant oils (Coconut, palm)
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Unsaturated Fatty Acids: - Correct answer ✔- One or more double bonds || || || || || || || || || || ||




- Most plant oils
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- Liquid at room temperature
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- Likely to spoil
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Monounsaturated Fat: - Correct answer ✔- One double bond || || || || || || || ||




- Olive oil (77%)
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- Canola Oil (62%)
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To prevent spoilage/ rancidity of unsaturated fatty acids: - Correct answer ✔1.)
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Store tightly covered
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2.) Refrigerate
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3.) Add antioxidants
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4.) Hydrogenate: Make saturated
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Hydrogenated Oils: - Correct answer ✔- Margarine, shortening (Crisco) || || || || || || || ||




- Use polyunsaturated oil
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- Hydrogen forced into oil
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- Hydrogenate ===> Makes it spreadable
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- Oil gets harder
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- More saturated than original oil
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Hydrogenated Oils ==> Properties: - Correct answer ✔- Easy to handle || || || || || || || || || ||




- Stores well (Prevents rancidity)
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- High smoking point (Good for frying)
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- PRODUCES *TRANS* FATTY ACIDS!!!
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Health Dangers of Excessive Trans Fatty Acid: - Correct answer ✔- Increases
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risk for heart disease
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-- Raises blood cholesterol
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-- Current intake is ~3% of total kcals
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- Now on food labels
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Minimize Intake of Trans Fat ==> Limit Use of: - Correct answer ✔- || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




Hydrogenated fats ||




- Deep- fried foods
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- High fat baked goods
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- Non- dairy creamers
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Essential Fatty Acids - Correct answer ✔- Body can only make double bonds in
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certain locations of a fatty acid
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- Needed for immune function, vision, cell membrane, and production of
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hormone- like compounds || ||




Essential Substance - Correct answer ✔- A substance that, when left out of a
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diet, leads to signs of poor health
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- Add back, reverses condition
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- Specific biological function
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Omega - 3 Fatty Acid - Correct answer ✔- Primarily form fish oil
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- Also found in canola or soybean oil
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- Recommend intake of ~2 servings of fish per week
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Omega - 6 Fatty Acid - Correct answer ✔- Found in vegetable oils
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- Only need a tablespoon a day
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The Different Effects ==> Arachidonic Acid (Omega - 6) - Correct answer ✔-
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Increase blood clot || ||




- Increase inflammatory responses
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