Essays on Lipids

Percentage of fat the athlete’s diet

Fat is a fundamental source of energy for the body. Importantly, fat provides approximately nine calories per gram which makes it a dense macronutrient. In strenuous athletic activities that last for about 6 hours, fats can offer about 60 to 70 percent of the energy required (Clifford & Maloney, 2011). Fats consumption in a diet of an athlete should be less than 30% of calories. Since athletes need a lot of energy, it is good to retain their fat intake at sufficient levels. However, depending on the activity, the athlete can decide to keep their fat intake at a minimum ...

Generally, I try to eat quite healthily, which means that I spend a lot of time preparing and planning for meals. Over the course of the three days that I recorded my food, I ate a macronutrient balance that was low on carbohydrates on purpose. I am quite precise with my diet, and I try not to deviate from my daily routine too much. The following chart shows my daily intake for three days—there is not much deviation on a day to day basis of the things that I eat and the way that I prepare my meals ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

CVD includes all ailments of the heart and circulatory system, including angina and heart attack. Other CVD diseases include carditis, cardiomyopathy, and congenital heart disorder. Edmunds (2014), states that CVD develops when there is plaque build-up on vessel walls. The mechanism of CVD differs significantly depending on the disease involved. For instance, coronary artery ailment includes atherosclerosis, and may occur due to hypertension, smoking, overweight, high-fat diet or diabetes. Despite the high deaths caused by CVD, it is approximated that 90 percent of CVDs are preventable (McGill, McMahan, and Gidding, 2008). Atherosclerosis can be decreased by controlling the risk ...

Recorded Intake of Protein, Carbohydrates, and Lipids

When recording my food intake within the spreadsheet, one element that was evident during the recording process was that some of the foods overlapped with regard to the macronutrients that they offer. Thus, this means that some of the foods had the capacity of offering all the macronutrients, as per the expectations in reaching my Daily Recommended Intake (DRI). From the records, the foods that provided proteins included Wendy's Go Wrap, caramel corn, hamburger, Large double patty, with condiments and vegetables, eggs, Quaker rice cakes, Bob Evans chicken tender, and Taco Bell Chalupa Supreme Chicken. The foods that provided ...

Introduction

High-risk nutrition practices usually concern nutrition norms that predispose individuals to the risks of contracting nutrition related ailments, which result from such practices (Palmer, 2011). However, in order to gain an insight into the influences that undermine the development of sound nutritional practices, it is important to understand the significance of culture in determining various nutritional practices by various people from around the world. Practically, culture entails shared practices, beliefs, and values that distinguish the practices of one group from the other (Palmer, 2011). Therefore, different cultures in the world have specific nutrition practices, for different occasions, which they ...

In addition to the direct physical manifestation of swarm phenotype –increased length and number of flagella, swarm cells often produce wetting agent, usually a surface of some type, for instance, the surface in Serrtia (serrwettins) and Bacillus (surfcatin) (White, 2006). In both cases loss of surfactant dramatically decreases swearing proficiency in Bacillus as well as strains of E. Coli do not make surfactants, which is probably why they are such picky swimmers. Surfactants act mainly to maintain surface wetness, which in turn allows cells to swim in every shallow layer of fluid on the surface. Research findings indicate that ...

Liver is the largest ‘gland’ of the digestive system. It is located right under the dome of the diaphragm, coated by the capsule. It is distinguished the liver’s convex upper surface adjacent to the diaphragm, and a lower, downwardly facing and in contact with the back and abdominal organs. On the part of the upper surface of the liver it can be seen its right and left lobes, the boundary of which is the crescent liver ligament. To the lower surface of the right lobe there is a gallbladder, close to the deep groove of the liver there ...

Lipids and protein play an important role in one’s diet. Protein is used to maintain and improve the structural integrity of the body, especially the muscles, bones, and the soft and connective tissues. The current diet plan includes eggs, tuna, bananas, and almonds as the main source. For lipid, eggs contain a healthy level of fat, specifically the egg yolks. The white part of the egg contains a healthy level of protein, making it an excellent source of protein and fat. Carbohydrates plan an important role in energy regulation. The current diet plan’s main source of carbohydrate ...

The patient presented in this case suffers from metabolic syndrome. The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of health problems that is associated with the presence of obesity and tissues resistance to insulin. The metabolic syndrome is a condition that causes a myriad of problems in the body such that the body becomes incapable of maintaining the circulation of the useful energy molecules such as glucose and lipids in the right quantities in the bloodstream (Huang, 2009). Other associated disorders of metabolic syndrome include high blood pressure and dyslipidemia. The lipid problem is characterized by elevated levels of triglycerides and ...

Healthy behaviors play a key role in daily life. Yet, certain unhygienic practices tend to interfere with the health and induce a risk to the overall life. These practices could be high-fat diet, alcohol, and smoking. There is a need to know much about these. In such context, the present description deals with a topic “ What will kill you first, a smoking, a high-fat diet or alcohol?”.

Health -related risk factors:

A risk factor is any quality, trademark or presentation of a person that improves the probability of building up an ailment or damage. A few illustrations of the more vital danger elements ...

Introduction and overview

It is important for everyone’s optimal health to receive the proper balance of foods each day. This balance is determined by many factors but none more important than the intake of energy and several different nutrients. The basic categories of the food required include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber and vitamins. The most significant determinant factor for this food intake is the amount of calorie intake. This is mainly because a number of chronic diseases and obesity are associated with increased cholesterol intake (Kliegman, 2016). Actually going through and counting and assessing my daily intake was a revelation ...

Introduction

The consumption of fat, one of the main macronutrients, has long been popularly associated with obesity and cardiovascular disease. However, this generally accepted premise fails to discriminate among the several types of fat: saturated fats, trans- fats, monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. Thus, this statement comprises all fats regardless of the essential differences in structure among them, but is it accurate that all categories of fat in the diet carry the same health risk? This paper aims to answer this question.

Summary

The first type of fat to be analyzed in this paper is trans-fat, also known as trans-fatty acids ( ...