breakdown, and endurance of muscles (Bird, Smith, James). All of these factors combine with increased lung capacity for an overall healthy body. A non-athlete however has atrophied muscles, decreased metabolic enzymes and a diminished lung capacity."(UK Essay,2013) For me to be able to experiment the difference in lung capacities between non-athletes and athletes I need to understand how the lungs work first. Breathing is the most crucial function in the body making our lungs contract and expand ,therefore
The novel sweetener aspartame was discovered in the United States in 1965 (Romanovski, 2009). James Schlatter, a chemist and a medical researcher, working for G.D. Searle and Co., was developing a new anti-ulcer treatment. One of the possibilities was to find an inhibitor of the gastrointestinal secretory hormone gastrin. Because the drug discovery at that time was a trial-and-error method, Schlatter had to synthesise C-terminal tetrapeptide (Trp-Met-Asp-Phe-NH2), usually found in the stomach, in