Carmen wrote:

> Dana Carpender wrote:
>
>>Krusty wrote:
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>>>"Dana Carpender" > wrote
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>>>>Except that they are exactly that -- inessential.
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>>>
>>>Cite?
>>>
>>>This I gotta see.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
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>>http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking...eogenesis.html
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>>The body is perfectly capable of making glucose with no dietary
>>carbohydrate whatsoever. That makes carbohydrates inessential by
>>definition.
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>
> The body can make proteins.

The body can make some proteins. It cannot make the eight essential
amino acids, making those essential in the diet.

Dana