Vitamins, Nutrients, and Minerals When you hear the three words: vitamins, nutrients, and minerals, you think of one thing-being healthy. Nutrition is all about vitamins and nutrients. Firstly, vitamins are an organic compound required by the body in small amounts of metabolism to protect health, and to help proper the growth of children. Vitamins also assist in the formation of hormones, blood cells, nervous systems chemicals, and genetic material. There are 13 well known vitamins. Some …showed first 75 words of 475 total…

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