Essential Nutrients Are Those That Our Cells Require but Cannot

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Essay

Essential nutrients are those that our cells require but cannot make, and thus they must be present in the diet.Only some amino acids and some fatty acids are essential.What does that suggest about extreme diets that eliminate fats or proteins? What does that suggest about our carbohydrate intake? Describe the typical American diet, in terms of relative amounts of ingested carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids.Propose some explanations for why one of those is predominant.

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Definitions:

Short-Run Adjustments

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Oligopolists

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Inverted-U Theory

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