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NUTRITIONAL ROLE OF FOOD FATS
Pages 21-22

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... Adipose tissue insulates the body from rapid changes in environmental temperature and cushions organs and the body as a whole against external forces. Palatability of Diets Dietary fat has a palatability role difficult to measure but important to proper nutrition.
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... As essential fatty acids account for a substantial proportion of the fatty acids of cholesterol esters and phospholipids in plasma lipoproteins and of mitochondrial lipoproteins, these acids presumably may have critical roles in membrane structures and in transport processes.
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Key Terms

  • fatty acids
  • fatty acid
  • acid deficiency
  • dietary linoleate
  • polyunsaturated acids

  • total calories
  • dietary fat
  • dietary cholesterol
  • affects essential
  • cure essential

  • polyunsaturated acid
  • usual pattern
  • cholesterol esters
  • human milk
  • prevent deficiency

  • linolenic acid
  • acid pattern
  • diets dietary
  • plasma lipids
  • experimental animals

  • mitochondrial lipoproteins
  • cholesterol affects
  • palatability role
  • lower levels
  • eicosotrienoic acid

  • proper utilization
  • membrane structures
  • substantial proportion
  • transport processes
  • acid increases


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