A wide range of minerals is essential for human health. The recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) serve as guidelines for daily intakes of nutrients that population groups in the United States should have in their diets. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) have been established for the following essential minerals: calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium. In addition, DRIs have been set for other trace...

Chelation is a bonding formed between a metal ion and legend. Chelating improves the absorption of the mineral from the digestive tract. The level of chelated minerals in livestock feeding is typically added at 25-30% of the total mineral in a feed. Chelated minerals have improvement in reproduction, health, soundness and growth. Natural feed with strong chelating properties includes dry melt r...

Inadequate levels of calcium and potassium intake have long been associated with higher blood pressures. Epidemiologic data have suggested these associations and many clinical trials have indicated causal relationships. However, the intervention data are plagued with inconsistent study designs, populations, and results, and there remain many questions regarding dietary recommendations of these ...

The purpose of this study was to identify food sources for major minerals such as calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na) and potassium (K), and to evaluate the relationship between dietary intake of these minerals and serum lipids in healthy Korean adults. A total of 132 healthy men and women completed a physical examination and dietary record and provided blood samples for lipid profile ana...

Identification of phyllosilicates on Mars suggests the existence an aqueous environment, indicating active period in its evolutionary history. This study analysed surface mineralogy caldera and flank regions Tharsis Montes using remote spectral analysis. Though a thick layer dust obscures volcanic province, relatively lesser provide unique window for exploration. The reflectance data obtained f...

A thermally triggered liposome-based mineralization system is described that is metastable at ambient temperature but rapidly forms calcium phosphate mineral upon warming to physiologic temperature. Mixing of a calcium-loaded lipid vesicle suspension with aqueous inorganic phosphate resulted in a stable liposome suspension whose bulk ionic concentration was highly supersaturated with respect to...

Cowpea crop, through combining a range of essential minerals with high quality proteins, plays an important role in providing nutritional security to human population living in semi-arid regions. Studies on genetics of biofortification with essential minerals are still quite scarce, and the major objective of the present study was to provide genetic information on development of cowpea cultivar...

Bone minerals and vitamin D are crucial for infants and small children. Human milk has little vitamin D, and supplemental vitamin D must be given to all infants either via drops or as contained in infant formula or foods. The calcium and phosphorus in human milk are adequate for infants in the first six months of life, with supplemental minerals coming from weaning foods after six months. Long-...