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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 12, 2017, 03:01:47 pm

Title: Lipid Health and Nutrition
Post by: rangerrebew on April 12, 2017, 03:01:47 pm
Lipid Health and Nutrition

 

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Lipids play diverse roles in the normal functioning of the body:

    they serve as the structural building material of all membranes of cells and organelles
    they provide energy for living organisms - providing more than twice the energy content compared with carbohydrates and proteins on a weight basis
    they function as molecular messengers and signalling molecules in the body

http://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/Lipid-Health-and-Nutrition.aspx