You have an odd friend: she is convinced that she can lose weight on a diet cons

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You have an odd friend: she is convinced that she can lose weight on a diet consisting entirely of walrus blubber (she read it on Wikipedia so it must be true, right?!). Aside from the fact that her breath smells like a dead walrus, you are concerned because you have some knowledge of biochemistry and you have seen some glaring problems with her new diet. You suggest to her that if she intends to stay on this diet, she should supplement it with a daily regimen of odd-chain fatty acids which she can purchase at the local health food store. Why is this a good suggestion, and what will happen to her if she fails to heed your advice?

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Answer( We should suggest her to stay on diet because:

Odd chain fatty acids have been gaining research
interest within the scientific community as they have been found to be important as:

(1) quantitative internal standards;

(2) biomarkers for dietary food intake assessment;

(3) biomarkers for coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and type II diabetes mellitus (T2D) risk.

(4) evidence for theories of alternate endogenous metabolic pathways.

If she fails to heed advice, then citric acid cycle works faster, and there is more accumulation of cholesterol in body, as a result disease risk increases.

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