Protein - what is protein? why do people need to eat protein? what kinds of foods have protein?

Protein

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Proteins are foods which that your body can use as building blocks to make muscle or skin or bones. Some foods which have a lot of protein in them are meat and beans and fish.

To find out more about protein, check out this book from Amazon.com or from your library:

Nutrition: What's in the Food We Eat, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and William Munoz (1992). For kids.

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