Kid Nutrition

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l to have a little diet there and to ask you to figure out how many calories that patient has received. Or another way that you sometimes see problems presented is with a diet which is disproportionate in one type of food versus another, and you have to figure out which is the one that has the best distribution of calories.
Protein quality relates to the distribution and proportion of amino acids that the body is not capable of synthesizing the particular protein source. What we are saying here is, what is high quality biological protein? Well, as it turns out, the highest biological proteins turn out to be things like eggs - that’s the standard to which everything is compared, is egg white - milk proteins, meats, chicken, the fowls and the fish. It is very hard to get high quality protein from vegetables. Soy comes the closest and the soy formulas are supplemented with amino acids in order to make them comparable to breast milk. So it’s very hard, on a vegetarian diet, to get a comparable type of protein. This is the protein content of m...