The minerals (inorganic nutrients) that are relevant to human nutrition include water, sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphate, sulfate, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, iodine, selenium, and molybdenum.Cobalt is a required mineral for...

Trace elements are inorganic substances required by living things in minute quantities. There are 24 natural elements that are essential to life. The major elements, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen comprise 96% of the weight of living matter. In...

Mineral deficiency is a condition where the concentration of any one of the minerals essential to human health is abnormally low in the body. In some cases, an abnormally low mineral concentration is defined as that which leads to an impairment in a...

Dietary minerals are the chemical elements required by living organisms, other than the four elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen which are present in common organic molecules. The term "mineral" is archaic, since the intent of the definition...

ABSTRACT Healthy nonsmoking postmenopausal women (n = 242; ages 40-66 y) were included in the Bone, Estrogen, and Strength Training (BEST) Study. Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured at five sites (lumbar spine L^sub 2^-L^sub 4^, trochanter, femur neck, Ward's triangle and total body)...

Dietary Chicory Inulin Increases Whole-Body Bone Mineral Density in Growing Male Rats1 (Manuscript received 13 March 2002. Initial review completed 1 April 2002. Revision accepted 2 September 2002.) ABSTRACT Chicory inulin is a natural linear fructan that is not digested in the...