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

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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 . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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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

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Essential vs. Non-essentialAmino Acids

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Vegetarianism

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Vegetarians

Natalie Portman, an American-Israeli actress

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Vegetarians

Adolf Hitler, German politician

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Vegetarians

• Buddhists as a group

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What They Eat to Remain Healthy?

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Food Sources of Essential Amino Acids

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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.

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KarenCarpenter1950-83

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The End

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Tricarboxylic Cycle

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