The mineral Iron , (Fe), is found in every living cell. There is a total content of 5g in the body or about 50 mg/kg of body weight. This mineral exists in the body in combination with protein and its importance for health has been recognized for centuries. Its major function is to form hemoglobin [...]
Magnesium, (Mg), is an essential mineral that accounts only for 0.05 percent of the body’s total weight. Approximately 70 percent of the mineral is located in the bones and the rest in soft tissues such as muscles and in body fluids. Magnesium, like calcium is a cation (divalent). It is heavily involved in many metabolic [...]
Mineral nutrients are non-carbon nutrients or inorganic. These nutrients are present either as cations ( positively charged) or anions (negatively charged). Cations are derivable from metallic elements, including calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, copper, cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum (molybdate), zinc, sodium and selenium (selenate). Nonmetal elements give Anions: chlorine ( chloride), iodine ( iodide) sulfur (sulfate) [...]
Although a daily multi-vitamin pill cannot substitute available nutrients in a balanced diet, does it give you partial protection when you drift from that “perfect” diet? In a ideal world you should get all the vitamins and minerals you need from your food, but, for the great majority of us this is not exactly the [...]
