Question

Welcome to the Body Company. You are applying for a job with us as a vitamin or mineral. Please describe 3 functions you can play for The Body Company and which other nutrients you work best with. Include in your interview what will happen when there is too much of you (toxicity) or not enough (deficiency) as well as the 3 best places to get you (food sources). Please find your name on the table below. Supplements Use Google or some other search engine, or look in the supplement aisle in the store, or even (maybe) on your medicine shelf at home to locate a real supplement that contains at least 3 vitamins or minerals and promises to help your body respond to stress. List those 3 ingredients and describe how these vitamins might combat stress in the body. For each of the 3 ingredients, identify a food source you are willing to eat instead of taking a supplement. "Please focus on Calcium foods" This is important all you can use is Calcium rich foods.

Answer 1

I am apply the job as a vitamin at the body company. I am an essential mineral. I should be taken in limited amount but I have many functions in the body starting from physical and psychological functions. I am required for many different jobs, including keeping the bones, muscles, heart and brain working properly. I am also important for making enzymes and hormones. I am “CALCIUM”. The three main functions of Calcium in the body company are as follows:

1. It is important for health and functioning of nerves and muscle tissue.

2. It supports proper function of the blood vessels, helps in clotting of blood

3. It is needed to build and fix bones and teeth.

The other nutrients with which calcium works best are phosphorus, magnesium and Vitamin D. All these nutrients help calcium to absorb and work better for our body functioning.

Milk is a good source of phosphorous and magnesium, which helps the body absorb and use calcim. Further, Vitamin D is needed to help our body use calcium and helps to build and maintain bones and milk is also fortified with Vitamin D.

The best sources of calcium includes:

1. Milk, cheese and other dairy products.

2. Green leafy vegetables.

3. Soya drink with added calcium

4. Bread and anything made with fortified flour

5. Fishes such as sardines and pilchards.

Too much of calcium in the blood can weaken the bones, create kidney stones and interfere with how the heart and brain works. Hypercalcemia is usually a result of overactive parathyroid glands.

If there is calcium deficiency, the complications include eye damage, an abnormal heatbeat and osteoporosis. It also result in losing of bone mass, bones become weak and porous.