About Alameda County. Alameda County, located on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, occupies a land area of 743 square miles, and is the seventh most populous among all California counties and second in the Bay Area with more than 1.5 million citizens. The population is highly diverse, both economically and ethnically.
You probably know you need to eat protein, but what is it? Many foods contain protein (say: PRO-teen), but the best sources are beef, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts, seeds, and legumes like black beans and lentils. Protein builds, maintains, and replaces the tissues in your body. (Not the tissues you blow your nose in!
Protein synthesis is just the fancy way of saying making proteins. Proteins are one of the three main groups of molecules needed for life; the others are carbohydrates and fats. We eat protein when we eat meats such as beef, pork, chicken, fish and lamb. What we are actually eating is the animal's muscles, and muscles are made of protein. Proteins come in all shapes and sizes and these molecules have a huge variety of functions.