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1. | Fatty Acid Pathways
Fatty acids exist in the body primarily as triglycerides and phospholipids. Phospholipids make up the bilipid membrane of cells and the membranes of organelles within the cytoplasm. Fatty acids are split from the triglyceride glycerol backbone and broken down into carbon fragments which are then oxidized to ...
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2. | Essential Fatty Acids
For the most part, organisms can satisfy their own fatty acid needs. In mammals, however, those enzymes which insert double bonds into the chains of fatty acids cannot insert them into the omega-3 and omega-6 ...
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3. | Lipid Digestion
Most natural whole foods have inherent enzymes capable of completely or partially digesting lipids if the enzymes are not destroyed through heat and processing. This widely underestimated value of whole, raw, fresh foods has been by and large ignored.
A common argument against the value of ...
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4. | Lipid Biochemistry
FATTY ACIDS
Fatty acids are long-chain "carboxylic" acids, that is, hydrocarbon (alkyl) chains containing the terminal -COOH chemical group. (Fig. 2)
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Fatty acids contain from 4 to 22 carbon ...
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5. | Lipid Functions
It can be argued that lipids may be the most important of all dietary constituents since they are required in the highest levels, aside from water, in every living cell. Lipids are a concentrated source ...
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