Elson M. Haas MDThis is a very common and complex health topic. Most Americans are heavier than their optimum weight, so in that sense they are overweight, but most are not obese, which I would define as being overweight to a degree that clearly increases our...
Digestion and Metabolism ; Proteins are first broken down in the stomach by hydrochloric acid, pepsin and proteases into peptides (amino acid chains) by splitting peptide bonds between the amino acid protein chains. In the first part of the
