AMSA announces symposium speakers on “Meat in our Diet and Relationships between such Phenomena as Meat Consumption, Healthiness, Health, and Social Care”
The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is pleased to announce, Drs. Eric Berg, Adegbola Adesogan, and Naima Moustaid-Moussa will be the featured speakers in the symposium entitled “Meat in Our Diet and Relationships between such Phenomena as Meat Consumption, Healthiness, Health, and Social Care” on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 during the 74th AMSA Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) hybrid meeting. This session will be sponsored by Corbion.
Dr. Eric Berg, Professor of Animal Sciences at North Dakota State University, will kick off this session with “A Salute to PVT TIM HiLL: Indispensable Amino Acids and Global Human Health.” Those of us who took animal nutrition during our undergraduate years likely learned the handy study mnemonic PVT TIM HiLL. This is an acronym for the nine indispensable amino acids 1) Phenylalanine, 2) Valine, 3) Threonine, 4) Tryptophan, 5) Isoleucine, 6) Methionine, 7) Histidine, 8) Leucine, and 9) Lysine. Dr. Berg’s presentation will discuss what it means when human diets are deficient in one or more of these indispensable amino acids and how dieters who are only looking at the crude protein on the food label are not getting the full story about that particular food protein.