Guest guest Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Human depot fat, usually found in the abdomen of men and around the thighs and hips of women, has a composition similar to lard. myristic 2%, palmitic 26%, stearic 14%, palmitoleic 3%, oleic 44%, linoleic 10% Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 74th Edition, 1993-1994, Fats and Oils, p. 7-29. Tony ==== From: " jwwright " <jwwright@e...> Date: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:35 pm Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Fiber Intake Jeff, If I eat nothing but carbos and excess calories, ie, no " protein foods " , no fats/oils, my body will make and store fat. What is the composition of the fat? Never found a good text for that. I wonder about what we would make if we ate nothing but romaine, eg. Sure we would store the fatty acids in whatever we ate, but what does the body make? Can we assume it's like a food animal? I think not, they're fed soy, corn etc. A wild animal - probably not, since they rarely eat excess food. It may not seem important at our low levels of intake, but if that intake includes just a little animal fat, over time our fat depos may look like saturated fat. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Yes, but what do we make from excess carbs? If I eat an ounce of olive oil, and a little bit of butter, it's conceivable that the butter's FA's get stored preferentially, while the others are burned. So we end up looking like butter. If I want to store fish oil FA's, I have to make sure there are no other FA's at low intakes. It still doesn't tell me what FA's the human body will convert carbs into - the biochem of converting carbs to fat. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: citpeks Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:44 PM Subject: [ ] Human fat composition Human depot fat, usually found in the abdomen of men and around thethighs and hips of women, has a composition similar to lard.myristic 2%, palmitic 26%, stearic 14%, palmitoleic 3%, oleic 44%,linoleic 10%Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 74th Edition, 1993-1994, Fats andOils, p. 7-29.Tony====From: "jwwright" <jwwright@e...>Date: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:35 pmSubject: Re: [ ] Re: Fiber IntakeJeff, If I eat nothing but carbos and excess calories, ie, no "proteinfoods", no fats/oils, my body will make and store fat. What is thecomposition of the fat? Never found a good text for that. I wonderabout what we would make if we ate nothing but romaine, eg. Sure wewould store the fatty acids in whatever we ate, but what does the bodymake?Can we assume it's like a food animal? I think not, they're fed soy,corn etc.A wild animal - probably not, since they rarely eat excess food.It may not seem important at our low levels of intake, but if thatintake includes just a little animal fat, over time our fat depos maylook like saturated fat. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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