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Advice on choosing health food and healthy foods and reading nutrition labels
Health food doesn't need a definition, does it? We all know what health food is it's yogurt and granola, whole-grain cereal and organically grown vegetables and fruit. It's 100% natural, no preservatives or dyes, unadulterated, pure. When you put all that ...

Nutrition Tips: How to Make Building Muscle and Losing Fat Easier
I get a lot of comments and questions regarding nutrition. Most of them have to do with time. In other words, people feel they are too busy to eat 5 or 6 nutritious meals a day, whether their goal is to burn fat or build muscle. Another time factor is ...

What to Look For In Selecting A High Quality Nutritional Supplement!
Have you ever purchased something thinking you had bought a really good product only to later find out that you could have had a better product for the same money? I know I have. And our friend Henry is shortly about to discover this sick feeling for ...




Proteins and the nutrition formulae
 
Many experts have given various proportions for the amount of proteins to be consumed as a part of our diet. But lets look at what proteins are made up of--Amino acids
• 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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Old-fashioned lifeline - Boston Globe
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Will Americans put on "recession pounds"? - Reuters
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Schools sees increase in free/reduced meals - Parkersburg News & Sentinel
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