Transcript 5-Year Cancer Mortality Rates in the US

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
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.
Karen
Carpenter
1950-83
The End
Tricarboxylic Cycle