Vitamins and Minerals and Their Roles

NUTRITION THE CAPITAL OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS? 

Vitamin is ‘energetic for life’.  Let's just repeat that and think about it for a moment.  Vitamin is ‘energetic for life’. What does it really mean...  Do you know vitamins and minerals and their roles?





Minerals and vitamins are mixtures of essentials for healthy operations in our bodies. We need minerals and vitamins to support us grow, to see properly, to form muscles, bones, organs, and skin, as well as to benefit us in fighting infections. Inadequacy in certain minerals and vitamins may lead to serious problems.

The best way to help keep the body safe is to consume enough minerals and vitamins for healthy growing and development is to deliver a wide diversity of fresh nourishment's from the 5 food groups such as whole-grain cereals and bread, vegetables, meat, fruit, eggs, fish, nuts poultry, and legumes, & dairy foods such as cheese, milk, and yogurt.


Vital Nutrients for Your Body

Each day, your body produces muscle, skin, and bone. It adds iron in the red blood cells that transmits oxygen and nutrients, and it sends nerve to tell our bodies what to do through the brain commands. It also verbalizes chemical reactions such as converting food to energy and energy to output physical activity.

But to do altogether this, your body requires certain raw materials. Those include at minimum 30 minerals, vitamins, and dietary mechanisms that your body needs but cannot make on its own in adequate amounts.


Micronutrients with Vital Role in the Body

Minerals and vitamins are often regarded as micronutrients since your body needs them a lot less in quantity than it needs macronutrients. This does not mean that you should skimp on them and forget about consuming them, it’s actually very hard to maintain your full intake of micronutrients every day, you would need large quantities of vegetables, fruits, meat, and beans every day.


Here are limited of diseases that may occur from vitamin deficiencies:

Scurvy. Ancient-time history tells us that living for months without fresh fruits or vegetables—the main sources of vitamin C—causes the bleeding gums and listlessness of scurvy.
Blindness. In some emerging countries, people still develop blind from vitamin A deficiency.

Rickets. A deficiency in vitamin D can cause rickets, a condition marked by soft, weak bones that can lead to skeletal deformities such as bowed legs. Partly to combat rickets, the U.S. has encouraged milk with D vitamin since the 1930s.

Just as a lack of key micronutrients can cause substantial damage to your physique, getting sufficient amounts can deliver a considerable benefit such as:

Robust Bones. A combination of vitamin K, calcium, vitamin D, phosphorus & magnesium defends your bones from fractures.

Avoids Birth Faults. Getting folic acid supplements early in pregnancy helps avert brain and backbone birth defects in newborns.

Strong Teeth. The inorganic fluoride not simply helps bone development but also saves dental cavities from deteriorating.


Water-solvable vitamins

Riboflavin            (vitamin B2)
Thiamin                (vitamin B1)
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B12
Biotin                    (vitamin B7)
Folic acid              (folate, vitamin B9)
Niacin                   (vitamin B3)
Pantothenic acid   (vitamin B5
Vitamin C


Here are a few examples of how vitamins helps preserve health:

Release Energy. B vitamins are important components of coenzymes (bits that help enzymes) that aid release energy after digesting food.

Yield Energy. Riboflavin, Thiamin, pantothenic acid, niacin, and biotin involve in energy making in the mitochondria which is the powerhouse cell in the body that gives us ATP and ADP.

Form Cells and Proteins. Vitamins B12, B6, and folic acid absorb amino acids (the structure of proteins) and aid cells increase and cell division.

Make Collagen. One of the various roles played by vitamin C is to help make collagen which binds together lesions and increases the blood vessel walls capabilities. It also helps with skin and hair proper health.
Fat-solvable vitamins

Vitamin E
Vitamin K
Vitamin A
Vitamin D

What they ensure

They pretty much help in all ways possible to make you as healthy as possible. They help from the digestive system, nervous system, to even the reproductive system.


Here are certain of the other vital roles those vitamins play:

-   Shape and develop bones would be impossible without vitamin D, A, and K.
-   Protect your vision as you age.


Vitamin A also helps keep cells functioning and protects your eye vision.

-   Skin regeneration
-   Healing scars
-   Guard the body.
-   Vitamin E also actions as an antioxidant

Key Minerals

-    Potassium
-    Sodium
-    Sulfur
-    Calcium
-    Chloride
-    Magnesium
-    Phosphorus


What they offer

One of the important tasks of key minerals is to keep up the proper equilibrium of water in the body. Chloride, Sodium, and potassium. 3 other key minerals> <calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus—are significant for healthy bones. Sulfur helps to stabilize protein building, including some of those that form skin, hair, and nails.
Hint minerals

Iron
Manganese
Molybdenum
Selenium
Zinc
Chromium
Copper
Fluoride
Iodine

What they make
Here are some examples:

-     Iron is best known for carrying oxygen all through the body.
-     Fluoride reinforces bones and retards tooth decay.
-     Zinc helps the blood to stay without any clots
-     Copper supports form enzymes, one of which helps with iron absorption
      and the formation of hemoglobin, which transmits oxygen to the blood.



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