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Recommended Mineral Intake

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Recommended Mineral Intake is a wonderful interactive that helps you calculate your daily recommended mineral intake values and also helps in understanding the functions of various minerals, its sources and its deficiency symptoms.
Recommended Mineral Intake
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Interesting Facts about Minerals
vThe mineral Iodine is abundant in seafoods and green vegetables. Severe deficiency of iodine causes goitre.
vChromium is a mineral which works with insulin to help the body use glucose. Milk and Cheese are good sources of chromium.
v Copper helps the body produce hemoglobin, to transport oxygen in red blood cells.
vPotassium helps maintain blood pressure, transmits nerve impulses and aids in muscle contraction.
vDeficiency of Calcium can affect bone density and increases risk for osteoporosis.

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