MINERAL

A. Preliminary

 The body can not synthesize minerals so that these elements must be provided through food. Most minerals can be detected in the body and trace elements are needed only in small amounts once called the charge (trasa element).
Minerals are an essential element for normal function of some enzymes and is important in controlling body fluid composition of 65% is water in the body weight. Water is the medium where all the metabolic processes take place.
Ensensial mineral constituents in tissue, fat, liquid and steletan.
Steletan contain minerals the body in large proportions.

What you ketahuin about Function Mineral itself? Minerals function is as follows:

a. Mineral constituents of bones and teeth, which gives strength and iriditas to the network, for example: Fe, P, Mg.
b. Minerals form salts that can dissolve and thus control the composition of body fluids. Na and Cl is an important element in the extra cellular fluid and blood: Fe, Mg, and P is an important element in the infra-cellular fluid.
c. Minerals and build enzymes and proteins and is part of amino acids such as cysteine.

B. Mineral Type
Minerals are essential constituents. In soft tissue, fluid and mineral skeleton contains a large body in proportion.
Based on the type, 2 kinds of minerals are divided as follows:
a. MakroMineral (consisting of: Calcium, Al, Mg, P, Sodium (Na) and Sulfur)
b. MikroMineral (consisting of: Fe, LZ, fluorine, manganese, zinc, cuprum, cobalt and chromium)

C. Mineral Resources and Functions
1. Calcium
Body well nourished adults containing 1-1.5 kg calcium and 90% found in bones and teeth in the form of complex grams.
Calcium sources are milk, fish, dried shrimp, sardines, spinach, cheese, ice cream, melinjo, and mustard greens.

Diekresikan calcium through the urine and feces and is necessary to prevent loss of calcium through food. Role of Calcium not only as the formation of bones and teeth but also plays an important role in various physiological processes and biokhemik in the body, other functions of calcium are as follows:
a. In jarigan fluid functioning of the heart and skeleton muscle
b. Neuromuscular irritability
c. The process of blood formation
d. Provides hardness and resistance to thinning impulse transmission, relaxation, and contraction
e. Absorption and enzyme activity
f. Giving regiditas against network

2. Phosphorus
Phosphorus sources: meat, fish, cheese, eggs, cereals, milled rice, and grains.
Phosphorus Functions:
a. Formation of bones and teeth
b. For the formation of an essential component of cell
c. Role in the release of energy from carbohydrate and fat
d. Helps carbohydrate absorption from the small intestine
e. Helps maintain the balance of acid / alkaline balance in body fluids
  
3. Iron
Sources of Iron: eggs, meat, fish, flour, wheat, bread, green vegetables, liver, spinach, beans, potatoes, corn.
Function Iron:
a. For the formation of new hemoglobin.
b. To control the hemoglobin to normal values ​​after the occurrence of bleeding.
c. To compensate for small amounts of iron that is constantly removed the body, mainly via urine, feces, and sweat.
d. To stop the loss of blood through the body's iron.
e. In the lactation for milk secretion.

4. Iodine
Sources of iodine include: vegetables, fish, and seaweed.
Water springs and salt berzodium.
The function of iodine include:
a. As an essential component of thyroxine and thyroid gland. Thyroxine serves to increase the rate of oxidation in body cells that promote growth.

5. Floor
Its source: water, food from the sea, plants, fish and livestock food.
Function:
a. For growth and the formation of tooth structure
b. To prevent dental carries

 
6. Sodium (Sodium)
Its source: Cheese, Ham, fish sauce, shrimp, vegetables, spinach, celery, cereals, fruits, milk, eggs, meat.
Function:
a. In blood plasma and fluid play a role in the network blanketing
b. Role in generating osmotic pressure that regulates the exchange of fluid between cells and surrounding fluid.
c. Determining the volume of extra cellular fluid and amine
d. To maintain balance the body.