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 is one of three major classes of foods called macronutrientsâthe other two are fats and carbohydrates. Protein is made up of amino acids, also known as the âbuilding blocks of protein.â We get protein primarily from poultry, beef, lamb, pork and other animal products, including almost anything that swims.