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Amino Acids and Your Daily Life

School of Medicine, Health Sciences and Engineering Susquehanna Township High School Lecture Series  Week 10, October 2013 Clinical Relevance of This Week’s Topic . Amino Acids and Your Daily Life. Wen Jie Zhang, MD, PhD. Essential vs. Non-essential Amino Acids. Vegetarianism .

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Amino Acids and Your Daily Life

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  1. School of Medicine, Health Sciences and Engineering Susquehanna Township High School Lecture Series  Week 10, October 2013 Clinical Relevance of This Week’s Topic Amino Acids and Your Daily Life Wen Jie Zhang, MD, PhD

  2. Essential vs. Non-essentialAmino Acids

  3. Vegetarianism

  4. Vegetarians Christine Lagarde IMF Director

  5. Vegetarians Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath, best known for his work as an artist including the Mona Lisa

  6. Vegetarians Natalie Portman, an American-Israeli actress

  7. Vegetarians Surya Bonaly, a French professional figure skater

  8. Vegetarians Adolf Hitler, German politician

  9. Vegetarians • Buddhists as a group

  10. What They Eat to Remain Healthy?

  11. Food Sources of Essential Amino Acids

  12. Eating Disorders (Conditions) • Anorexia (symptom) - the symptom of poor appetite whatever the cause • Anorexia Nervosa - an eating disorder of excessive weight loss and usually undue concern about body shape • Anorexia Mirabilis - teenagers (usually girls) who would starve themselves, sometimes to the death, for the sake of piety and self-consciousness.

  13. KarenCarpenter1950-83

  14. The End

  15. Tricarboxylic Cycle

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