Family Many Fish oils Fish oils are thought to be healthful, but it is not recommended that they be used as supplements. Read the Consumer Corner article on Page 163 of your text for a sizzling review of fish oil supplements. The remainder of dietary fat is found mostly in two other classes of compounds listed below. These are lipids because of solubility considerations only and include Vitamin D , steroid hormones and bile . These compounds are necessary for proper health and are derived from cholesterol.
Emulsifiers help solubilize hydrophobic molecules.
The presence of dietary fat in the stomach will slow down the release of foodstuff from the stomach to the small intestine. Fat digestion begins when the fat reaches the small intestine, mixes with bile, and becomes available to the appropriate enzymes. Free fatty acids, monoglycerides and glycerol form small beads called micelles once emulsified in the intestines, and await being shuttled across the mucous membranes of the intestinal villi. Larger products, such as the long chain fatty acids and monoglycerides must be formed into micelles, absorbed into intestinal cells, incorporated into chylomicrons in the intestinal cell, and released into the lymph system. The main risk factors for Cardiovascular Disease , or CVD, include smoking, hypertension and high blood cholestero l.