WHERE'S THE PROTEIN? You can live without chocolate and get by without sex (for a while). Like it or not, you cannot live without protein. Muscles, skin, tendons and bones are made from proteins. Your body makes antibodies to fight infection, hormones and enzymes to drive body functions, and repairs cuts and breaks -- it couldn't do any of them without protein. Amino acids are the 'building blocks' that connect together to make proteins. Ring …showed first 75 words of 2236 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2236 total…surgery to correct the problem. Symptoms · Drops of bright red blood on bowel movement, toilet tissue, or clothing; rarely the bleeding is more profuse.· Tearing or burning pain in the anal region during a bowel movement; dull ache may continue for several hours.· A small piece of skin at the end of the fissure (called a "sentinel pile") that may show outside the anus.· Hard or infrequent stools, usually from deliberately retaining painful bowel movements.