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...down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also, he has had a break because his rice dishes prepared in the center's elaborate metabolic kitchens have included such delicacies as olives, mushrooms and an apple pie (made with a rice crust...
...British researchers reversed the usual order, tried a dog-reducing diet on humans first. Rusks fortified with calcium and amino acids, they found, will streamline anything from a Falstaff-size human to a dachshund in two weeks...
Bloch, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1938 after graduating from the Technical Center in Munich, has recently made use of radioactive carbon as a tracer in investigating the metabolism of amino acids. He holds the Harvey Medal for medical research...
...Biochemist Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang pays his baffled respects to the proteins, of which all living objects are largely made. Living cells, even simple bacteria, make proteins by the dozens, but human chemists so far have not synthesized any. The proteins' molecules probably have long central chains of amino acids. These are coiled like springs, and all sorts of chemical oddments must be attached at precisely the right turns of the spiraling chains...
...people who prefer dead animals to blended amino acids, Rosin has words of cheer. Chemistry can give meat substitutes any desired texture and make them taste better than the natural stuff...