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3 Things you want to know about Cholesterol
You wouldn't judge a book by its cover, would you? You would want to open the book and read part of it to get a better idea about what is going on, right? Well, judging a book by its cover is what happens when you look at LDL (bad) cholesterol levels ...
Power Nutrition Basics
What does it mean to provide your body with the right structural materials? Are you aware that your body requires sufficient amounts of these ‘right materials’ to repair and maintain existing tissues and grow new tissues? Do you understand the power of ...
The New And Improved Nutrition Pyramid
Just when you were getting the Nutrition Pyramid down to an exact science, the USDA goes and releases an all new nutrition and diet plan for healthy Americans. On April 19, 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture unveiled its new My Pyramid ...
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· alanine - ala - A · arginine - arg - R · asparagine - asn - N · aspartic acid - asp - D · cysteine - cys - C · glutamine - gln - Q · glutamic acid - glu - E · glycine - gly - G · histidine - his - H · isoleucine - ile - I · leucine - leu - L · lysine - lys - K · methionine - met - M · phenylalanine - phe - F · proline - pro - P · serine - ser - S · hreonine - thr - T · tryptophan - trp - W · tyrosine - tyr - Y · valine - val - V
Out of the 20 there are 8 essential amino acids meaning those which cannot be synthesized by the body and have to be supplied from our diet. For muscle makeup the cells should have all the amino acids
especially the essential amino acids.
So what's the relevance from the nutrition point of view? Good question.
There are two kinds of proteins. The complete ones and the incompletes proteins.
The complete proteins have all the 8 essential amino acids and so are complete.
Consumption of the complete proteins is the way to go. They are found in poultry products, meat, eggs, milk. Make them a part of your diet. The proteins from vegetables and mostly vegetarian diets are incomplete and therefore not recommended for health and fitness purposes So what's the solution--Combination.
Combining two vegetarian sources of proteins will do as good as eating a complete protein. Combination of cereals and pulses is a good example.
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US Deputy agriculture secretary to visit Mass.Boston.comBOSTON—The deputy secretary of the US Department of Agriculture will be visiting Massachusetts to celebrate the first anniversary of the MyPlate food icon, which was adopted by the agency to promote healthy nutrition. Deputy Secretary Kathleen ...and more » |
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