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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Guide to Minerals Part 3

MINERAL	PRIMARY	FOOD	DEFICIENCY
	FUNCTION	SOURCES	SYMPTOMS

Potassium	Needed for muscle	fresh fruits and	muscle weakness
	contraction, heart action,	vegetables, milk &	irregular heartbeat
	nerve transmission, fluid	dairy products, nuts	apathy, confusion
	balance. Involved in	legumes, lean meat	loss of appetite
	making proteins. Needed		(deficiencies are
	for maintenance of acid-		unlikely, unless
	base balance. Required		excessive water loss
	for formation of glycogen		occurs through
	(short-term storage of		vomiting, diarrhea,
	energy)		extreme sweating

Selenium	Works with vitamin E to	seafoods, lean meat	heart muscle
	act as antioxidant and	whole grains, wheat	abnormalities,
	protect cell membranes	germ, milk, organ	anemia
		meats

Sodium	Needed for normal fluid	salt, soy sauce,	muscle cramps,
	balance, both inside and	monosodium glu-	weakness, mental
	outside cells; nerve	tamate (MSG), most	apathy, loss of
	transmission, acid-base	processed foods	appetite (deficiencies
	balance and muscle	(especially soups,	are unlikely, unless
	contraction	sauces, and cured	another medical
		meats), milk and	problem exists)
		dairy products, meat

Zinc	Works as part of many	milk and dairy	retarded growth,
	enzymes. Present in	products, whole	prolonged wound
	insulin. Needed for making	grains, vegetables,	healing, slow sexual
	reproductive hormones,	liver, egg yolks,	development, loss
	normal sense of taste	oysters, lean meat,	of taste (and as a
	and wound healing	fish, poultry	result, loss of
			appetite)

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Guide to Minerals Part 1

Nutrients are just as essential as vitamins. For the next few weeks, we shall show the functions of some of the minerals we need, sources and deficiency symptoms.

MINERAL	PRIMARY	FOOD	DEFICIENCY
	FUNCTION	SOURCES	SYMPTOMS

Calcium	for strong bones and	milk and dairy	stunted growth in
	teeth; required for normal	products, sardines,	children, weakened
	muscle contraction and	salmon eaten with	bones in adults,
	relaxation, heart action,	bones, oysters, tofu,	bones that break
	nerve function, and	clams, citrus fruit,	easily; osteoporosis
	blood clotting	green, leafy vegetables

Chromium	works with insulin to take	brewers yeast, meat,	impaired glucose
	sugar into cells. Involved	clams, whole grains,	metabolism. (May
	in breakdown of sugar to	unrefined foods,	lead to diabetes)
	release energy	cheese, nuts

Copper	needed for hemoglobin	whole grains, nuts,	anemia, bone defects
	and to make red blood	legumes, lean meat,	retarded growth,
	cells. Forms protective	fruits, vegetables, fish	impaired metabolism
	coverings for nerves.	shellfish (especially
	Part of several enzymes.	oysters) organ meats
	Involved with vitamin C
	in forming collagen.
	Needed in respiration
	and release of energy

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Guide to Minerals Part 3

Guide to Minerals Part 3

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Guide to Minerals Part 1

Guide to Minerals Part 1