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Vitamins and Minerals
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What are vitamins and minerals?
First, we define what these words mean: Vitamins and minerals are substances that are required for normal metabolism. They are essential in small amounts to maintain good health, promote growth and regulate body functions. The body only utilizes them without breaking them down, which is the reason why they are only required in ‘small amounts’.
Normally they are not synthesized in the body and therefore most of them are supplied by the diet (from food), though sometimes they are formed in the body as well, as in the case of vitamin D which is synthesized in the body to a limited extent. A vitamin in particular is a group of organic substances which help regulate the rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body, whereas, minerals are natural, non-organic substances which are important components of bones and soft tissues of the body. Vitamins and minerals function as partners and technically termed as ‘cofactors’ in the metabolism of products in the body.
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