"Krusty" > writes:

>"Dana Carpender" > wrote
>> If the body can make it, it is considered inessential. That's the
>> definition. Carbohydrate is inessential.

>The body can make protein. By your logic. Protein is "inessential".

Well, the body can make protein that only has the "inessential"
amino acids; half of the amino acids in our proteins we need to
get from our diet.

But, sure. The body can make fat as well, so fat and carbohydrates
and 10 of 20 amino acids are inessential. Eating a diet solely
consisting of tryptophan, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine,
threonine, valine, leucine, and isoleucine (histidine and arginine
aren't really required in adults pretty much) -- the things that
are essential -- would be a terrible idea.

Even if you took sixty vitamin and mineral pills a day, Atkins-style.


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