Section 1: Food, Nutrition and Health - Chapter 1: Nutrients - 5: Minerals
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- What minerals are:
- Micronutrients - needed in small amounts
- Calcium, iron, sodium, fluoride, iodine, phosphorus
- What minerals do in the body:
- Calcium:
- Strong bones and teeth; makes nerves and muscles work; helps blood clot after injury
- Iron:
- Makes haemoglobin in red blood cells to carry oxygen to produce energy in body cells
- Sodium:
- Controls water in body, nerves and muscles
- Fluoride:
- Strengthens tooth enamel and bones
- Iodine:
- Produces thyroxin in thyroid gland to control metabolic rate of body
- Phosphorus:
- Strong bones and teeth; energy release; makes cell membranes especially in the brain
- Calcium:
- Deficiency (not enough) of minerals in the diet:
- Calcium:
- Bones and teeth weeaken; bones bend; nerves and muscles do not work properly; blood will not clot after injury
- Iron:
- Iron…
- Calcium:
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