Health Benefits of Minerals

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Food enrich with Minerals is important for being healthy. Our daily diet must include essential minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, potassium, chloride and sulfur, they are needed in sufficient amount. Some traces of iron, zinc, copper and iodine are equally important. 

Minerals aids you to perform many functions that are vital to adopt healthy lifestyle. These minerals circulates with blood or in other different ways and gives lots of benefits to us, such as:

• Calcium helps you to get your bones strong and important to make your teeth healthy. milk and other dairy products like  yogurt and cheese are the best sources of calcium.

• Phosphorus helps to maintain acid-base balance between cells.

• Sodium is needed to regulate water content and balances electrolytes.

• Magnesium helps enzymes to work, it regulates blood sugar and blood pressure. magnesium found in nuts, seeds and vegetable.

• Potassium helps in making muscles contract. Bananas are rich in potassium.

• Chloride required for fluid balance and stomach acid.

• Iron is very important for blood to carry oxygen from lungs to entire body. Vegetable, meat, egg and dried fruit are good source of iron.

• Zinc helps in cell growth, and helps to boosts immune system. Food sources of zinc are meat, fish, poultry, whole grains and vegetable. 

• Iodine helps to regulate healthy growth and development. Seafood, iodized salt, bread and dairy products.

 Minerals and Vitamins are the great source for turning your food into energy. So let's start consuming adequate amount of nutrient that adds value to our diet.