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Everything you ever needed to know about minerals - why you need them and how much of each that you need:
Did you know that there are 12 essential minerals? These minerals are necessary in relatively large amounts, to enable good health and need to be taken in the form of food in the diet as the body cannot make them. You need to eat food with these minerals every single day!
The two most common minerals that exist in the body are: calcium (in the bones and teeth) and phosphorus (also found in the bones and teeth, but also in the muscles)!
The following are all the 9 essential minerals you need to have in the food in your diet every day:
“Essential Minerals”
There are also a number of trace minerals , which the body requires in only very very small amounts, but they are just as necessary for health as the essential minerals as they perform a variety of vital processes in the body:
“Trace Minerals”
* There are a few other trace minerals which will be described together as their effects are not yet fully understood (boron, cobalt, fluoride, vanadium)
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