Describe the two separate metabolic needs that are met when a full-grown person eats a balanced diet
What will be an ideal response?
To meet caloric and nutritional needs. Although you are no longer growing, you still need to repair and replace damaged cells. Nutrients are also used in all of the chemical reactions that make life possible. You also still need the energy, which you get from the calories in food.
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a. can encourage kidney stone formation. b. can help protect against kidney stone formation. c. have no impact on kidney stone formation. d. can stress the kidneys. e. can encourage kidney stone formation and can stress the kidneys
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