Calcium is essential to a healthy diet and it helps prevent osteoporosis in later life. But most of us don’t get the calcium we need. • Beginning at age 9, children should get 1,300 milligrams of calcium per day in their diet....
Read MoreCarbohydrates, fats (lipids), and proteins are the energy-providing nutrients, because they contain calories. When we talk about energy, we mean that your body breaks down these nutrients and “burns” them to fuel...
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Read MoreThe Journal of the American Medical Association now encourages all adults to take a daily multivitamin. Multivitamins may help prevent a number of chronicdiseases, including some cancers, osteoporosis, and heart...
Read MoreThe classes of nutrients that we introduced earlier are all essential because you must have them in order to function. (Alcohol, in contrast, is not an essential nutrient; even though it provides energy in the form of...
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