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FNDH 620 Exam 2 -Kansas State University (Questions & Answers)
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FNDH 620 Exam 2 -Kansas StateUniversity (Questions & Answers)
What are the most prevalent saturated fatty acids in average US diet?
- ✔️ Palmitic and stearic acid
What are the most prevalent UNsaturated fatty acids in average US diet?
- ✔️ oleic and linoleic acid
What are the top 3 sources of fatty acids in US diet? - ✔️ Cooking
oils, red meats, and dairy products
Where is FA oxidation activated? - ✔️ In the cytoplasm by acyl-CoA
synthase (-2 ATP)
Where does FA oxidation take place? - ✔️ The mitochondria
What is formed when fatty acids are oxidized in the mitochondria? -
✔️ Acetyl CoA
What are the primary sites of fatty acid synthesis? - ✔️ Hepatic cells
and fat cells
Where does fatty acid synthesis occur in the cell? - ✔️ the cytosol
What does fatty acid synthase require? - ✔️ NADPH
What is the normal/primary product of fatty acid synthase? - ✔️
Palmitate (undergoes elongation and/or unsaturation to yield other FAs)
What are trans fats associated with? - ✔️ Coronary heart disease risk
by increasing LDL levels and decreasing HDL levels
What do the 2010-15 dietary guidelines recommend regarding trans fats?
- ✔️ consume as little as possible
, Effects of essential fatty acid deficiency - ✔️ slowed growth,
dermatitis, kidney lesions, early death
Which fatty acids is considered essential and must be supplied by the diet?
- ✔️ alpha-linoleic acid (n-3) & linoleic acid (n-6)
What is the significance of Arachidonic Acid? - ✔️ Precursor for
eicosanoids (prostaglandins, thromboxane, leukotrienes)
What are the biological effects of eicosanoids? - ✔️ inflammatory
response, pain/fever, reproductive function, as well as regulating blood
pressure, platelet aggregation, and thrombosis
Highest animal form of saturated fat - ✔️ cattle and sheep
What are highly unsaturated food sources? - ✔️ Fish and plant oil
What is the major source of DHA and EPA? - ✔️ Fish
What is the major source of ALA? - ✔️ Plant oil
Why do the dietary guidelines no longer have a cholesterol limit
recommendation? - ✔️ It does not make sense to control cholesterol
levels through the diet because dietary cholesterol only makes up about 1/3
of total cholesterol. If dietary cholesterol is reduced, the body will just
produce more.
Humans build _____ mg of cholesterol each day. - ✔️ 700
What is cholesterol NOT the precursor of? - ✔️ Phospholipids
What is cholesterol the precursor of? - ✔️ bile acids, steroid
hormones, vitamin D, adrenocortica hormones
What is the most active site of lipid digestion? - ✔️ Upper jejunum
The main function of lipoproteins is: - ✔️ to act as the carrier of
lipids
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