Your Friends Explain to You That Their Recent Nutritional Assessment

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Essay

Your friends explain to you that their recent nutritional assessment found they were low in protein. A more in-depth analysis revealed that their intakes of the amino acid lysine were particularly low. Your friends ask you to explain the concept of protein quality and how it can be measured. They also ask you to recommend some foods that would be good sources of lysine.

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Definitions:

Ureter

(ureter) One of the paired tubular structures that conducts urine from the kidney to the bladder.

Urine Flow

The process by which urine moves from the kidneys to be expelled from the body.

Glomerular Filtrate

Glomerular filtrate refers to the fluid that passes from the blood into the Bowman's capsule in the kidneys during the filtration process of the urinary system.

Glomerulus

A network of capillaries located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney, responsible for filtering blood to form urine.