Chapter 4: Lipids Continued

Question 1

Saturated Fats should be how much of your 2000 calorie diet?

Answer 1

Less than 7%

Question 2

What percent of fats should be in your 2000 calorie diet?

Answer 2

25-30%

-Fish, Nuts, and vegetable oils

Question 3

Where should the majority of your fats come from?

Answer 3

Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated Fats

Question 4

Fat digestion begins in:

Answer 4

The oral cavity with the aid of lingual lipase secreted from the salivary glands and the gastric lipase when it enters the stomach

Question 5

Where does your food go after leaving the oral cavity?

Answer 5

The stomach

Question 7

Because fat stays in the stomach longer, what does it do?

Answer 7

It gives you a sense of fullness for a longer period of time

Question 8

How is digestion continued after the food leaves the stomach?

Answer 8

It continues into the small intestines

Question 9

Where is Bile that is produced by the liver stored?

Answer 9

In the gallbladder until need for digesting fat

Question 10

The bile enters the small intestines through:

Answer 10

The bile duct

Question 11

What does the bile do?

Answer 11

It reduces the fat molecules further into lesser particles, making it easier for lipase to break down fat molecules into fatty acids and glycerol

Question 12

What happens once Fatty Acids make their way to the liver?

Answer 12

They are reduced to chylomicrons and are deposited into the lymph system, which carries them through the blood

Question 13

Fatty Acids that are NOT used:

Answer 13

Are stored in the adipose tissue

Question 14

What does the Unabsorbed Cholesterol do?

Answer 14

It binds to soluble fiber and leaves the body

Question 15

Eating fiber:

Answer 15

Reduces cholesterol

Question 16

Environmental concerns:

Answer 16

• Plants and animals absorb fat-soluble chemicals such as pesticides which are stored in fat and oil
• People who use these plants and animals as food will absorb some of the stored chemicals
• DDT

Question 17

How to cut fat at the grocery store:

Answer 17

Select your meat products according to the acronym FiRST to get the leanest cuts
•F=Flank
•R=Round
•S=Sirloin
•T=Tenderloin

Question 18

What happens when food is in the small intestine?

Answer 18

Chime is blended by the bike and continued to be broken down by the pancreatic lipase