W26-L7: The nutritional value of fats and proteins

Question 1

What are our premium reserve fuels?

Answer 1

Fats

Question 2

What is the key structural material for structural components and enzymes?

Answer 2

Protein

Question 3

What is the most complex digestion process?

Answer 3

Protein digestion, denaturing then broken down into a.a then multiple gut transporters

Question 4

Are branched chain amino acids beneficial in sport?

Answer 4

No evidence

Question 5

How much of our amino acids do we recycle?

Answer 5

Around 2/3

Question 6

What are the broken down amino acids used for?

Answer 6

Carbon for fuel

Question 7

How does the body remove excess nitrogen?

Answer 7

Via Urea, some ammonia can be directly passed by the kidney

Question 8

Can proteins be stored?

Answer 8

No, only as fat or glycogen

Question 9

What happens to proteins in fasting?

Answer 9

Breakdown fuels formation of glucose and ketone bodies

Question 10

Are there cytoskeletons in lipid droplets?

Answer 10

No so can change size readily

Question 11

What transports fatty-acyl CoA into the mitochondria?

Answer 11

Carnitine transporters

Question 12

In starvation what occurs?

Answer 12

glucose is maintained
by breaking down muscle protein early on and
then by glycerol

Question 13

What amino acid does corn lack?

Answer 13

Tryptophan

Question 14

What is gout caused by?

Answer 14

hyperuricemia