The phrase "a fat load" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used informally to refer to a large amount of something, often in a negative or dismissive context.
Example: "After hearing his excuses, I realized it was just a fat load of nonsense."
Alternatives: "a big pile" or "a hefty amount".
At the time, Notion Ink was offering an Android tablet that everyone thought was the second coming and, when the dust settled, it was a fat load of nothing.
Interviewer: I also felt that it was a fat load of crap, as one could define what "crap" is and the essential qualities that make up crap: how you grade a philosophy paper?
In individuals with type 2 diabetes following a fat load, the apo A-V postprandial response paralleled the increase in VLDL-triglycerides and apo C-III levels.
Dietary manipulation to address the hypoglycaemia was attempted and the patient was advised to have an evening low glycaemic index (GI) snack incorporating a fat load; specifically a whole-grain rice cake or multi-grain gluten free bread topped with cheese, cream cheese or peanut butter.
Fifty-one healthy male volunteers (42 homozygous for the apo A-IV 360Gln allele (Gln/Gln) and nine carriers of the A-IV-360His allele), homozygous for the apo E3 allele, were subjected to a vitamin A-fat load test consisting of 1 g of fat/kg body weight and 60 000 IU of vitamin A. Blood was drawn at time 0 and every hour for 11 h.
Thus, in regard to postprandial response at baseline, after an oral fat load, a notable decrease in endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation was observed in all the participants, whereas endothelium-independent nitroglycerin-induced mediated dilation was unaffected.
No marked differences were found in the metabolism of intestinally or hepatically derived TRLs in patients with mild CAD (<50% stenosis) compared with those with severe CAD (>50% stenosis) after an oral fat load of a fat-rich liquid formula (∼ 50 g fat/m body surface).
And now, we've got a big, fat load of nothing.
Therefore, a greater fat load (75 g) to that previously used by our group (50 g) was administered to ensure a pronounced lipemic response and optimum harvesting of postprandial lipoproteins, and this was well tolerated by participants.
These include an oral glucose load, an oral fat load, acute exercise, administration of bacterial LPS, exposure to UV irradiation and vaccination.
This time point was chosen because in a pilot experiment we found that after an oral fat load plasma triacylglycerol levels peaked at 2 3 hours post loading and almost returned to basal levels after 6 hours (data not shown), indicating that at that point most of the fat bolus has passed through the enterocytes, and sufficient time remained for transcriptional events to occur.
