Potassium is a very important mineral for the proper functioning of all cells, tissues, and organs in the human body. It is also a substance that conducts electricity in the body, along with sodium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium. Potassium is crucial to heart function and plays a vital role in skeletal and smooth muscle contraction, making it very essential for normal digestive and muscular function.
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Calcium rich Vegetarian recipes
Calcium is by far the most abundant mineral in the body. Calcium is required for muscle movement, strong bones, and for the nerves to carry messages between the brain and the body.
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Magnesium-rich Vegetarian recipes
Magnesium is a mineral that contributes for many vital body functions. Here are the major ones:
- Regulating biochemical reactions that includes muscle/nerve function, blood sugar regulation, blood pressure control and protein synthesis.
- Magnesium also plays a key role in the transport of calcium and potassium ions across cell membranes. This process of transporting calcium and potassium is very vital in heart rhythm, nerve impulse conduction and muscle contractions.
- Magnesium contributes in structural development of bones.
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Iron-rich Vegetarian recipes
Iron plays a very key role in producing hemoglobin, a protein that helps red blood cells to transport oxygen in the body. Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia.
Reasons for low levels of iron could be due to:
- Not getting enough iron in our food. This can happen especially in growing kids and teens, who needs lot of iron-mineral.
- Bleeding inside the body.
- If you have celiac disease.
- Heavy periods in Teens and Women.
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