Lipids 3

Question 1

Dietary advice for fats/oils

Answer 1

Humans need some fat in diet - best to get from fats/oils from nuts/seeds/olives/canola. Tropical oils (coconut and palm) are not recommended. Replace saturated fat with monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat

Question 2

What is a ketone?

Answer 2

Ketone bodies are metabolites that replace glucose as the main fuel of the brain in situations of glucose scarcity. Energy source, cross blood brain barrier, spares glucose in brain

Question 3

What is the keto diet?

Answer 3

Keto diet is where your body uses different types of fuel, rather than sugar and carbohydrates, the keto diet relies on ketone bodies

Question 4

Issues and advantageous with keto diet

Answer 4

Issues include dyslipidemia (imbalance of lipids), low intakes of dietary fibre and some vitamins and compliance (hard to follow)

Advantageous: build muscle, weight loss, could help with reducing epilepsy

Question 5

Modifiable factors to prevent CVD

Answer 5

Things we can change that are commonly related to the diet, good nutrition is an important preventative of CVD, good for long term health