What Are Vitamins?
Vitamins are substances that are found in foods we eat. Your body needs vitamins to work properly, it needs vitamins to help your blood clot when you get a cut. Some vitamins help to make energy. Vitamins are even involved in making sure you can see in color. There are two types of vitamins: fat-soluble and water-soluble. When you eat foods that contain fat-soluble vitamins, the vitamins are stored in the fat tissues in your body and in your liver. Then, when it's time for them to be used, special carriers in your body take them to where they're needed. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are all fat-soluble vitamins.
What are minerals?
Minerals are essential nutrients that your body needs in small amounts to work properly. We need them in the form they are found in food.
Minerals can be found in varying amounts in a variety of foods such as meat, cereals (including cereal products such as bread), fish, milk and dairy foods, vegetables, fruit (especially dried fruit) and nuts.
Minerals are necessary for three main reasons:
1) building strong bones and teeth,
2) controlling body fluids inside and outside cells,
3) turning the food we eat into energy
|
|
