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Essential Minerals: Their Role in Health  We all need nutrients to lead a healthy life. A balanced diet usually requires all the necessary food components like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Maintaining a balanced diet with various nutrient-rich foods helps you get the essential minerals your body needs to function optimally. Besides other food components minerals also play a crucial role in various bodily functions, from bone health to immune support. Deficiencies or imbalances in these minerals can lead to health issues, so it's important to include sources of these nutrients in your daily diet. Essential Minerals needed by our body A few essential minerals that you can easily get from your food and are important for your body are: Calcium : Calcium is found in dairy products, leafy green vegetables, and fortified plant-based milks. A calcium deficiency can lead to weakened bones (osteoporosis), muscle cramps, and problems...

The importance of energy to our body is so much that if insufficient food is eaten, there will be a negative energy balance which will result in weight loss. If too much food is consumed then there will be a positive energy balance, and the excess energy produced is stored as body fat resulting in weight gain. You must have observed that healthy kids and adolescents have a positive energy balance in form of weight gain.   Our meals are for energy but we can’t eat food all the time. We need certain other measures to stay energized but instead of energy drinks, there are natural energy boosters to keep us energized all day. Natural Energy Boosters There are ways to stay energized throughout the day and natural energy boosters help you stay energized and keep up with your energy requirements. Some of these energy boosters are provided to us by nature and we need to make the optimum use of them to gain energy. Water Water is one of the best natu...

  Healthy Eating Pain or Gain? You all have experienced the effects of healthy eating throughout the different stages of life. The experience, after-effects and benefits of them can be mind-blowing as well as overwhelming too. Most of us are in love with the healthy food and the positivity it has brought in our life. But, have you ever noticed that for some of you, certain healthy food can give more harm than good. Some times you will feel ill after having a particular healthy food and find it hard to cope with the after effects. There can be issues faced by few people switching to healthy eating, let’s look into the issues and at the same time try to deal with them. Even healthy food can make you fat It is tough to search for real healthy food while selecting groceries, there are a number of healthy foods available in the market, offering you varying levels of claims regarding their nutritional value. Some popular coined terms that can be seen on the packages can b...

  Vitamin D is a much-needed and widely discussed vitamin, as it is related to bone strength and overall health and vitality in multiple ways. In fact, adequate vitamin D is essential for health and is needed by infants, kids, adults, and elderly people equally. However, at the same time, it is highly undervalued, as most people assume they are getting enough of it through the sun, but very few receive proper exposure to achieve an adequate level. Though overexposure is said to lead to skin cancer.  It can be taken via natural sources, and food sources are also there, but in the daily rush of life, the natural resources and readily available food sources are generally left behind. Consequently, you will find every second person in your close contact as vitamin D deficient, having all the symptoms from tiredness to bone issues, in constant consultation with medics and consuming supplements to overcome the deficiency. Many who are not very health-consci...