Nutrition Advice: During Covid19 Pandemic For essential minerals required to include in the diet.

Nutritionists advise eating fresh food to wash vegetables and outside commodities with warm water as it kills the bacteria around. Minerals perform several vital functions and are absolutely essential for existence from harmful diseases, maintains proper function in the body, development of bones, acid-base equilibrium, osmotic balance in the body. Minerals are also essential as an integral component of biological important components such as hemoglobin, thyroxine, insulin.

Minerals are classified into two broad categories based on RDA(Recommended dietary allowance ) :

• Principal Elements 
• Trace elements

 Principal elements constituents calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chlorine, and sulfur.
 Trace elements are required in less than 100mg/day they are further classified into essential trace elements, possibly essential trace elements, non-essential elements.
 RDA: Adult : Principal Elements 

• Calcium - 800mg/day
• Phosphorus -800mg/day
• Magnesium - 350 my/day 
• Sodium - 5-10g/day 
• Potassium - 3-4g/day 
• Chlorine - 5-10g

Generally, it is regarded to include milk, vegetables, cereals, fruits into vegetarian diet and fish, cod liver oil, meat additional in non-veg diet
 On consumption of the results of the mineral in bone formation, blood coagulation factor, the release of hormones, proper nerve impulse transmission, increases the antibody formation these are generally the ways to fight against infection and vital chronic infection and disease.
 Minerals perform less weight function and more capital function.
 Minerals are also essential to prevent acidosis and maintains the acid balance equilibrium.

• Iron- 3-5 g 
• Copper -2-3 mg  
• Iodine - 2-9 mg 
• zinc - 10-15 mg