Thursday, 31 May 2018

Eicosanoids, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases

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In my next post i will try to delve even further in the role played by the eicosanoids in the prevention of the cardiovascular diseases. I...
Saturday, 26 May 2018

The eicosanoids and their relation with the essential fatty acids

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This is a bit complicated, but please read slowly and check the connections with the previous posts. Not very well known, the eicosanoids ...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Dietary fats - Part two (Triglycerides digestion)

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Many foods contains substantial amounts of dietary fats. Cooking oils (Sunflower, peanut, olive) got 100% fats as triglycerides. Butter and ...
Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Fats - intro

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The fats, also known by the scientific (fancy) name of lipids, are digested and released in the blood stream, as lipoproteins (ULDL, HDL, LD...
Monday, 2 April 2018

Supplement trends - Uridine monophosphate

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Uridine monophosphate Uridine monophosphate (UMP), also known as 5′-uridylic acid (conjugate base uridylate), is a nucleotide that is used...
Monday, 26 March 2018

Carbohidrates II (About fiber and lactose-intolerance)

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Let's continue to explore the carbs story. As i said in a previous post, there are some carbs that cannot be digested. They are named ...
Sunday, 18 March 2018

Sweeteners 101

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There are two kinds of sweeteners: non-nutritive and nutritive. Non-nutritive sweeteners are also called high intensity sweeteners as they a...