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A brief article about the eight essential amino acids and mentions of the other fourteen non-essential amino acids.

Amino acids are critical to having a healthy body. The stomach will take a piece of protein and break it down into around 22 amino acids. Eight of the amino acids are called essential because the body cannot make them for itself.

Lose weight simply and easily by increasing your daily intake of dietary fiber.

If you’re trying to lose weight in a medically sound and healthy way, I’m sure you know that you should be eating more fruits and vegetables. But if you’re as busy as many working adults, you may be finding this hard to do, or resorting to a fruit or vegetable juice drink to get your servings.

A vegetarian diet can be the most healthy diet to follow — here are tips on how to get enough foods with these essential vitamins and minerals.

Although a vegetarian diet can be much healthier than a meat-based diet, it may be just as unhealthy if it doesn’t include certain nutrients that are not found in high concentrations in non-animal sources.