Mrs. Webb is a 38-year-old patient who has been changing her lifestyle to eat in a healthy way and lose weight. During your health promotion education regarding her nutritional status, you explain the function of dietary protein as:
a. providing an energy source for the brain.
b. building and maintaining tissues.
c. participating in specific detoxifying me-tabolic pathways.
d. synthesizing and regulating hormones.
B
The major functions of proteins include building and maintaining tissues, regulating water and acid-base balance, and acting as precursors for enzymes, antibodies, and several hormones. Car-bohydrates, not proteins, provide an energy source for the brain. Proteins do not participate in detoxifying metabolic pathways or synthesize and regulate hormones.
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