Diet and triglyceride metabolism.

Triglyceride forms the major store of energy in the body and it is only recently that the role of the triglyceride metabolism has been considered to be other than harmless. A vast accumulation of triglyceride as adipose tissue has been long known to increase the stress and strain of other aspects of the individual's physiology because of the physical problems it creates. More recently it has become apparent that obesity is associated with biochemical problems, and a closer look at triglyceride metabolism indicates that there exist more subtle and possibly more sinister implications in these associated disorders of triglyceride metabolism. It is widely known from obesity and starvation studies that diet plays a major role in triglyceride metabolism, certainly in the quantitative sense, but there is the possibility that the quality of the diet can exert less striking, but nevertheless important, influences on triglyceride metabolism.