Although often difficult to find in the marketplace, the leaves of the quinoa plant are edible, with a taste similar to its green-leafed relatives, spinach, chard and beets. Not only is quinoa high in protein, but the protein it supplies is complete protein, meaning that it includes all nine essential amino acids.
Female athletes who have too little body fat often experience amenorrhea and loss of bone mass, which can lead to stress fractures and osteoporosis. The athlete's level of perâ¦formance also decreases.
If you don't eat enough food, your body starts to shrink gradually. As you starve, your liver converts muscle to glucose to keep your brain alive. As you starve, your hunger pains disappear. After that, you're just tired. Once you burn through 70 to 94 percent of your body fat, and 20 percent of muscle, you die.