Well, if there s a question about their nutrition, if they are certainly borderline, you Energy derived from food. It wouldn t be unusual to have a little diet there and to ask you to figure out how many calories that patient has received. Or another way that you sometimes see problems presented is with a diet which is disproportionate in one type of food versus another, and you have to figure out which is the one that has the best distribution of calories. Protein quality relates to the distribution and proportion of amino acids that the body is not capable of synthesizing the particular protein source. It is very hard to get high quality protein from vegetables.
Triglycerides are our main dietary fat and they are based on the length of the chains.
Eight carbons is considered short chain fatty acids, medium chain fatty acids are 8-12 carbons, long chains are more than 12 carbons. There are three predominant phospholipids that are in our diet. These are the three. And they are important for the cell function and membrane function. It is only found in animal protein.