Amino Acids and Your Daily Life

Wen Jie Zhang, MD, PhD

School of Medicine, Health Sciences and EngineeringSusquehanna Township High School

Lecture Series Week 10, October 2013

Clinical Relevance of This Week’s Topic

Essential vs. Non-essentialAmino Acids

Vegetarianism

Vegetarians

Christine Lagarde

IMF Director

Vegetarians

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

Vegetarians

Natalie Portman, an American-Israeli actress

Vegetarians

Surya Bonaly, a French professional figure skater

Vegetarians

Adolf Hitler, German politician

Vegetarians

• Buddhists as a group

What They Eat to Remain Healthy?

Food Sources of Essential Amino Acids

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.

KarenCarpenter1950-83

The End

Tricarboxylic Cycle

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