What Elements Are Necessary for Our Health

cow s as well as human milk, is close to a perfect diet, containing carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, hi addition, it contains another important ingredient, calcium. Why is calcium important For one thing, calcium is to make bones and teeth. Calcium is prescribed for women suffering from osteoporosis. So milk is good also for children as they need to build bones. Calcium, as it turned out, does a lot more essential things to the body than merely building bones and teeth. You have approximately 1 kg (2 pounds) of calcium in your body. 

Women tend to lose blood more often than men and need to take more iron than men do to offset the loss. Iron is the essential ingredient of blood. In addition, iron 

Calcium and iron are two well-recognized mineral nutrients. In addition, altogether something like 30 elements have now been recognized to be essential to human and other organisms health (Fig. 6.1). Let us explore here why they are necessary and what these elements are doing to our body and other organisms. 

In order for our body to function properly (i.e., to be healthy), all the bodily physiological reactions should occur smoothly and at regulated paces. These are in 

Distributiou of Eleineuts iu Mau Fig. 6.1 How much of each element is in human body  

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