Recent questions tagged food-and-nutrition

Description : Can microorganisms be used to produce vitamins and amino acids?

Last Answer : Numerous vitamins are currently produced by industrial fermentations. Vitamin B12, for example, is used to prevent certain types of anemia in the body, and riboflavin is used to encourage metabolic ... industrial processes are glutamic acid and lysine. Both are used as dietary growth supplements.  

Description : What are the benefits of breastfeeding? 

Last Answer : Breastfeeding provides benefits to both the baby and the mother. A major benefit to the baby is that breast milk supplies the correct amount of nutrients as the baby grows from an infant to a ... and the white comes from the fat. There are approximately 750 calories per liter of breast milk. 

Description : What is bulimia? 

Last Answer : Bulimia is an eating disorder in which individuals binge eat frequently-often several times a week or even several times per day. Sufferers of this illness may eat an enormous amount of food in a ... of calories. Then they will purge their bodies by vomiting or using laxatives and/or diuretics. 

Description : Can someone die from excessive water intake? 

Last Answer : Excessive water intake is known as water intoxication and is the direct result of drinking too much water at too quickly a rate. The excess water greatly dilutes the nutrients and ions ... particular, when the sodium ion concentrationdecreases, hyponatremia occurs, which may lead to coma and death 

Description : Why is carbon so important in biological system? 

Last Answer : It is sometime said that life on our planet is based on carbon. Carbon is an element that is found in all organic molecules. Carbon forms strong covalent bonds, in other words it shares ... other elements (referred to simply as groups) can be attached at various positions to the carbon skeleton.