Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Post-structuralism. Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s.
There has to be a happy meatium (sorry, I couldn't resist). Protein is used for building and repairing muscle and tissues, red blood cells, hair and finger nails and for synthesizing hormones. Protein is necessary for reducing the risk of iron deficiency anemia and to improve healing. Excess protein does NOT build muscle bulk and strength exercise does.
According to Gordon Wardlaw and Anne Smith in their text Contemporary Nutrition, proteins comprise 17% of your body weight, which except for water, forms the majority of lean tissue. Dietary protein supplies your body with essential nitrogen, which is then used to reformulate needed body proteins. wide variety of proteins exist and are necessary for numerous functions. If your diet lacks sufficient protein over time, many body processes slow down, eventually compromising your overall health. Organs such as the heart and liver may actually decrease in size, as will muscles and blood proteins.