As one of the essential nutrients, minerals have an influence on your children’s growth and development as well as their health.
Even though the body needs only a little amount of minerals, compared to carbohydrates for example, they have an important role in our body. Without minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, and the other nutrients can hardly carry out their functions. Let’s find out where the minerals come from.
Just as vitamins, the body needs minerals to run the process of children’s growth & development. They are also needed to take care of health, including shaping strong bones, producing hormones and maintaining heart pulses.
There are some kinds of minerals required in more than 100 mg per day like calcium. Though, the body only needs a little amount of zinc (less than 100 mg per day), for example.
The body needs the minerals everyday. Among so many important minerals for children, let’s see some of them and how they give benefits to our children.
1. Calcium (Ca)
Benefits:
– good for teeth and bones development
– avoids children from osteoporosis in the future
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