Lipids in Food
This small crustacean is high in cholesterol but low in fat.
What is shrimp?
Our main storage form of fat.
What are triglycerides?
PUFA is an acronym for...
What is polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Many types of saturated fats affect blood cholesterol levels. But lauric acid, abundant in this tropical food, only increases HDL levels.
What is coconut oil?
Recent research has found that the cholesterol you eat does not affect this as much as we previously thought.
What is blood cholesterol?
These two macro food groups have a larger impact on our blood levels of cholesterol than cholesterol does.
What are fats & carbohydrates?
This type of fat by definition has 1 double bond. Olive oil is an example.
What is a monounsaturated fat?
This type of PUFA helps lower triglycerides. EPA, DHA, and ALA are examples.
What is omega 3 fatty acid?
This cooking fat has a high smoke point (450F) because the milk solids have been removed.
What is clarified butter, or What is ghee?
LDL and HDL are examples of this. Hint: it's not cholesterol.
What are lipoproteins?
This way of raising meat (and dairy) produces twice as much omega 3 fats as conventionally raised options.
What is grassfed?
Nuts are in this type of fat.
What is omega 6 (a polyunsaturated fat)?
Heat, light and air all speed up this process.
What is oxidation?
Replacing saturated fats with mono and polyunsaturated fats has been shown to help lower risk of CHD. However, replacing saturated fats with this food group has actually been shown to increase triglycerides, small LDL particles, and decrease HDL cholesterol.
What are carbohydrates?
Cholesterol is the precursor for all of our hormones. But it is also crucial in the synthesis of this, which helps us digest fats and fat-soluble vitamins.
What is bile?
This fat-soluble spice has become quite popular for its anti-inflammatory action.
What is turmeric?
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature and have a relatively long shelf life. This process mimics this quality to help prolong shelf life of food products.
What is hydrogenation?
When double bonds break, they create this entity that can cause cellular damage.
What are free radicals?
Beef tallow and cocoa butter are high in this type of saturated fatty acid, which has a neutral effect on blood cholesterol.
What is stearic acid?
What is inflammation?
In 2015 the FDA banned this from food products because it was no longer considered safe. The food industry was given 3 years to comply.
What are partially hydrogenated oils? What are trans fats?
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are fats that we must obtain from our diet because the body cannot produce them. These are the 3 EFAs.
What are arachadonic (omega 6), linoleic (omega 3) and linolenic (omega 6) acids?
The recommended ratio of omega 6's to omega 3's in the diet is 4:1. Most of us are eating closer to this ratio.
What is 15:1?
Minnesota pathologist Ancel Keys possibly single-handedly started the war on fat with one research study that persuaded this organization to issue the country's first ever guidelines targeting saturated fat in 1961.
What is the American Heart Association?
The liver makes most of the cholesterol that we need per day. Even if we eat 0g of cholesterol in our diet, the liver will make approximately this much to meet our body's needs for digestion, cellular development, and vitamin and hormone production.
What is 1 to 2 grams?