As important as vitamins are,
they can do nothing for you without minerals.
Vitamins cannot be
assimilated without the aid of minerals. And though the body can
manufacture a few vitamins on its own, it cannot manufacture a
single mineral. All tissues and internal fluids of our body
contain varying quantities of minerals. Minerals are constituents
of the bones, teeth, soft tissue, muscle, blood, and nerve cells.
They are vital to overall mental and physical well-being.
Minerals act as catalysts for
many biological reactions within the body, including muscle
response, the transmission of messages through the nervous system,
the production of hormones, digestion, and the utilization of
nutrients in foods.
Minerals are trace and
ultra-trace inorganic substances found in foods and water. In
addition to forming structural parts of the body such as calcium
is a part of bones and teeth, some minerals such as magnesium are
integral parts of enzymes that regulate many thousands of body
reactions including the metabolizing carbohydrates, protein and
fats. Iron is a mineral that is an integral part of red blood
cells that carry oxygen to all cells in the body.
Of the more than 60 minerals
found in the body, 22 are considered essential to good health. An
RDA or "estimated safe and adequate daily dietary intake" has been
set for 12 of these minerals.
Minerals
are essential factors in human nutrition. Like vitamins, they are
needed only in small amounts, but they differ from vitamins in
that minerals are simple elements (trace elements) and they do not
contain carbon. However, minerals may be supplied to the body
along with an organic complex such as a carbonate,
gluconate or
chelate, and the like. The complex (called an anion)
affects absorption of the mineral (element or action), but is not
a factor in the nutritive value of the mineral
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