Whey Protein Question - To Cathy S in VA.

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Hi - So glad to hear you are making a good recovery from your

bout with appendicitis. My question for you today: What form of

whey protein are you using? Where do you buy it? Etc.... Please

give us the details.

Thanks!

JamiGoldWing

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> > Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2002 Jul;42(4):353-75. Related

> Articles, Links

> >

> > Whey components: millennia of evolution create

functionalities

> for

> > mammalian nutrition: what we know and what we may be overlooking.

> >

> > Walzem RL, Dillard CJ, German JB.

> >

> > Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A & M University, College Station

> 77843,

> > USA.

> >

> > Nutrition is undergoing a revolution owing to the recognition

> that some

> > foods contain trophic, health-promoting factors distinct from

> essential

> > nutrients. In this revolution, whey is increasingly being viewed

as

> more

> > than a source of proteins with a particularly nutritious

> composition of

> > essential amino acids. Milk evolved under continuous Darwinian

> selection

> > pressure to nourish mammalian neonates. Evolutionary pressure

> appears to

> > have led to the elaboration of a complex food that contains

> proteins,

> > peptides, complex lipids, and oligosaccharides that act as growth

> factors,

> > toxin-binding factors, antimicrobial peptides, prebiotics, and

> immune

> > regulatory factors within the mammalian intestine. Importantly,

> these

> > trophic macromolecules are not essential, although the health

> benefits that

> > their biological activities within the intestine provide likely

> contributed

> > to neonatal survival. Human and bovine milks contain many

homologous

> > components, and bovine whey may prove to be a source for

molecules

> capable

> > of providing biological activities to humans when consumed as food

> > ingredients. To approach this potential, food and nutrition

> research must

> > move beyond the description of food ingredients as delivering

only

> essential

> > nutrients and develop a mechanistic understanding of the

> interactions

> > between dietary components and the metabolic and physiological

> properties of

> > the intestine.

> >

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