Protein Power
Protein is essential to all body tissues for growth, repair and maintenance. Protein is required for making enzymes, antibodies, hormones, and hydrochloric acid.
Protein power helps the body maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, provide energy and helps the body fight off disease. Proteins provide the building blocks of a cell’s structure needed for organs, blood, muscles, bone, connective tissue and essentially every part of the body.
Protein is the most abundant substance in the body, next to water.
By consuming adequate amounts of quality dietary protein, these powers are made possible. You get protein in a variety of lean meats, fish and poultry. You also get it from soy, eggs and dairy. These proteins supply the body with amino acids, the building blocks from which the body can make its own body proteins.
There are essential amino acids and non-essential amino acids. Foods contain about 20 different ones and more than half of those are non-essential meaning the body can make them itself.
There are nine amino acids that are essential, meaning the body cannot make them and must get them from food. The body needs these on a daily basis in order to make the non-essential amino acids.
If even one essential amino acid is missing or deficient, it can create a detrimental rippling effect that will be manifested anywhere in the body.
No new body tissue can be made without protein. Consuming QUALITY protein can have positive effects on the body and play a part in the prevention of chronic diseases such as heart disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis.
