You decide to see your physician for a medical evaluation. She draws a blood sample for a blood lipid profile. She informs you that you’re at high risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease because you smoke cigarettes, have poorly-managed type 2 diabetes, and have a parent who suffered a heart attack. When the lab delivers your blood lipid results, you learn that your total cholesterol is 191 mg/dL and your HDL cholesterol is 35 mg/dL. Your total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio (Tc:HDLc) is ideal. True or False?

Since 2 plums contain a total of 16 grams of digestible carbohydrate, how many Calories of carbohydrate do the 2 plums contain?

In which 2 organs or tissues is glucose stored in the human body?

Which type of triglyceride (or more precisely, which type of fatty acid on the triglyceride) is most responsible for elevating the level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in the bloodstream?

The fatty acids on the glycerol backbone of triglycerides can vary both in their carbon chain length and in the number of double bonds between the carbon atoms. If a fatty acid possesses a total of one double bond between its carbon atoms, we refer to the fatty acid as being which type?

An adult woman with a body mass index (BMI) of 28.0 would be classified as obese.

Diabetes mellitus is diagnosed when fasting plasma glucose is ≥126 mg/dL, when an oral glucose tolerance test is performed and plasma glucose is ≥200 mg/dL when evaluated 2 hours after consuming 75 grams of glucose syrup, and/or when HbA1c is ≥6.5%.

All but one of the following increase the deposition of fat in the intra-abdominal area (also called the abdominal viscera). Which one of the following does NOT increase the deposit of fat in the intra-abdominal area?

When glucose is in short supply, ketones are made from acetyl-CoA. Most of the acetyl-CoA for ketone production is made from the breakdown of which of the following compounds?

A common consequence of obesity is ectopic fat. In other words, obesity leads to fat deposition in tissues where fat should not be stored, such as in the skeletal muscle and in the liver.