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What are the differences between vitamins and minerals?
Vitamins are organic compounds that the body needs in small amounts for various biochemical functions, while minerals are inorganic elements that the body needs in larger amounts for structural support and physiological processes. Vitamins are classified as water-soluble or fat-soluble, while minerals are classified as major minerals (needed in larger amounts) or trace minerals (needed in smaller amounts).
What vitamins and minerals are bad for you in overdose?
Yes. However so is extreme excess or deficiency of them also, which is why vitamins are essential nutrients. The body requires only small amounts of them.
What does not provide any calories but is vital in small amounts?
Vitamins and minerals.
Are vitamins and minerals needed in only small amounts in your body?
yes
List two distinct ways in which minerals are differ from vitamins?
Vitamins are complex molecules, whereas minerals are singular elements. Vitamins are only required in minute quantities whereas some minerals are required in larger amounts.
What alternative treatment is there for hypercholesterolemia?
There are advocates of treatment using vitamins, minerals and antioxidant substances in relatively high amounts. These amounts generally exceed those provided by the Food and Drug Administration in its Minimum Daily.
Are vitamins and minerals micronutrients?
Vitamins are considered micronutrients because they are required in milligram or microgram amounts in the diet.
A substance that is vital to life in small amounts?
Trace element such as vitamins and/or minerals.
Why are vitamins and minerals measured in milligrams rather than grams?
Usually because we need such very small amounts of vitamins for our health. Sometimes even in microgram amounts.
Minerals that your body requires in very small amounts are called trace minerals. What are examples of trace minerals?
B.ZincC.Iron
What is the composition of bee pollen?
It is rich in vitamins, especially B vitamins, and contains trace amounts of minerals, elements, amino acids , and enzymes.
What remaining amounts of water vitamins and minerals are absorbed in the?
Villi in the large intestine
