How many minerals have nutritional value in human beings?
This is an excellent question. Today, many companies who formulate minerals boast that their formulations include sixty to eighty minerals. That may sound good in the Ad-Programs, but in actuality, how many minerals have nutritional value in human beings? The National Research Council lists only 25 minerals or elements that are considered to have nutritional value in human beings. Of those 25, there are eight whose essentialness to the human diet has never been demonstrated. To be essential to the human body, a mineral must demonstrate that a dietary deficiency of that element consistently results in a suboptimal biological function that is preventable or reversible by physiological amounts of the element. For all practical purposes, there are only 17 minerals or elements of substantiated nutritional value. The Importance of Trace Minerals: We could not survive without minerals, in fact, vitamins need minerals to be able to do their job in our body. We could not survive without calcium
