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<blockquote data-quote="mpe" data-source="post: 389479" data-attributes="member: 60109"><p>These are liver synthesised fats. The only thing they really have in common with cholesterol is that the liver puts both into VLDL. High levels of such fats would tend to imply a lack of dietary fats, which are delivered by chylomicrons. (Quite a bit of the cholesterol in chylomicrons is also liver synthesised in origin rather than dietary.) Possibly also too much dietary carbohydrate, since the liver converts excess sugars into fats.</p><p></p><p>Also calling (any) sterols "fats" is not really accurate, whilst both are "lipids", they are very different chemically. The term "lipid" applying to a rather mixed bag of organic compounds. Fats specifically being 3 fatty acids attached to propan-1,2,3-triol (glycerine). A mono or di-glyceride is not a "fat". Nor is a cholesterol ester of a fatty acid or nor an ester of a fatty acid & fatty alcohol (a "wax"). In chemical terms "fatty" implies a long (unbranched) chain mono carboxylic (or alcohol). Cholesterol being a "sterol" or "steroid alcohol", which have the distinct feature of 4 linked cycloalkane rings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mpe, post: 389479, member: 60109"] These are liver synthesised fats. The only thing they really have in common with cholesterol is that the liver puts both into VLDL. High levels of such fats would tend to imply a lack of dietary fats, which are delivered by chylomicrons. (Quite a bit of the cholesterol in chylomicrons is also liver synthesised in origin rather than dietary.) Possibly also too much dietary carbohydrate, since the liver converts excess sugars into fats. Also calling (any) sterols "fats" is not really accurate, whilst both are "lipids", they are very different chemically. The term "lipid" applying to a rather mixed bag of organic compounds. Fats specifically being 3 fatty acids attached to propan-1,2,3-triol (glycerine). A mono or di-glyceride is not a "fat". Nor is a cholesterol ester of a fatty acid or nor an ester of a fatty acid & fatty alcohol (a "wax"). In chemical terms "fatty" implies a long (unbranched) chain mono carboxylic (or alcohol). Cholesterol being a "sterol" or "steroid alcohol", which have the distinct feature of 4 linked cycloalkane rings. [/QUOTE]
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