Weight Loss Glossary I

Linoleic Acid

Linoleic Acid is a fatty acid that your body can't manufacture but needs for good health. If linoleic acid is excluded from the diet, retarded growth and skin lesions have been seen to occur in animals. Because of this need for this fatty acid, but the body's inability to manufacture it, it is termed an "essential fatty acid".

Source:

Barasi, M. (1997) Human Nutrition Oxford University Press P. 79

Lipids

Term used to refer to fats - but can also be referring to waxes and terpenes.

Lipolysis

Lipolysis is quite simply the breakdown of fats within cells. When this occurs free fatty acids are released into the blood stream.

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