PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olfactory Bulb, Adipose Tissue, Long Term Ecological Research Network
29 Mar 2018
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Npy promotes food-seeking behaviour: another hunger cue comes from neuropeptide y or. Why not store it all as glycogen, which is a quickly transferable source of energy: fat has more than twice the energy than carbohydrates, like glycogen have. For every 1 gram of fat, there are 9 units of kilocalories. Compare that with carbohydrates which contain only 4 kilocalories per gram: and unlike glycogen, fat is found in virtually all parts of the body. If you took a 70 kg man, he has about. 1200 kcal of energy stored in the form of glycogen. But the fat or adipose tissue is so much more than just a passive energy storehouse. It is an active component of your regulatory physiology and was fairly recently classi ed as an endocrine organ as well. In this case, giving additional leptin actually does not reliably result in weight loss to return to normal levels. of !
