The Six Essential Nutrients

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antibodies, many hormones, and chemicals that help the blood to clot are proteins. Proteins are part of muscles and many cell structures, including the cell membrane.

Sources of proteins in the diet include meats, dried beans, whole grains eggs, and dairy products.

Minerals and vitamins: a mineral is an inorganic substance that serves as a building materials or takes part in chemical reactions in the body. Minerals make up about four percent of your total body weight. Most of the mineral content of your body is in your skeleton. Calcium and phosphorus form much of the structure of bone.

Unlike minerals, a vitamin is an organic nutrient that is required in small amounts to maintain growth and metabolism. Vitamins do not provide energy or building materials for the body; rather, they regulate processes in the body.

The two main groups of vitamins are fat-soluble vitamins and water-soluble vitamins; fat- soluble vitamins can be stored in the liver where excess ...

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