Why do you have to eat parts of minerals to stay alive and healthy?
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A rudimentary understanding of cellular physiology would alleviate the need for any such future silly questions.
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The human body comprises chemical compounds such as water, amino acids (proteins), fatty acids (lipids), nucleic acids (DNA/RNA), and carbohydrates (e.g. sugars). These compounds in turn consist of elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and may or may not contain minerals such as calcium, iron, and zinc. Minerals also ubiquitously occur in the form of salts and electrolytes. All of these chemical compounds and elements occur in various forms and combinations (e.g. hormones/vitamins, phospholipids, hydroxyapatite), both in the human body and in organisms (e.g. plants, animals) that humans eat.\n\nThe human body must necessarily comprise those elements that humans eat and absorb into the bloodstream. The digestive system, except in the unborn fetus, is the first step in helping to make the different chemical compounds and elements in food available for the trillions of cells of the body. In the digestive process of an average adult, about seven litres of liquid, known as digestive juices, exit the internal body and enter the lumen of the digestive tract. The digestive juices help break chemical bonds between ingested compounds as well as modulate the conformation and/or energetic state of the compounds/elements. Yet many compounds/elements are absorbed into the bloodstream unchanged, though the digestive process helps to release them from the matrix of the foods where they occur. Any unabsorbed matter is eliminated in the feces. Only a minimal amount of digestive juice is eliminated this way; the intestines reabsorb most of it otherwise the body would rapidly dehydrate (hence the devastating effects of persistent diarrhea).\n\nStudy in this field must take into careful account the state of the body before ingestion and after digestion as well as the chemical content of both the food and the waste. The specific types of compounds and elements that are absorbed by the body can be determined by comparing the waste to the food. The effect that the absorbed matter has on the body can be determined by finding the difference between the pre-ingestion state and the post-digestion state. The effect may only be discernible after an extended period of time in which all food and ingestion must be exactly regulated and all waste must be analyzed. The number of variables (e.g. 'confounding factors') involved in this type of experimentation is very high. This makes scientifically valid nutritional study very time-consuming and expensive, which accounts for why a proper science of human nutrition is rather new.\n\nIn general, eating a variety of fresh, whole (unprocessed) foods has proven hormonally and metabolically favourable compared to eating a monotonous diet based on processed foods. In particular, fresh, whole foods provide higher amounts and a more favourable balance of essential and vital nutrients per unit of energy, resulting in better management of cell growth, maintenance, and mitosis (cell division) as well as of appetite and energy balance. A generally more regular eating pattern (e.g. eating medium-sized meals every 3 to 4 hours) has also proven more hormonally and metabolically favourable than infrequent, haphazard food intake.\n\nVitamins give you a complement among all the nutrients your body requires. It is not advisable at all to substitute entirely your meals with vitamins and dietary or food supplements.  I recommend you to look for a nutritional advisor and discuss in which way you can adjust your meals, having all the necessary elements your body needs, plus, eating only what you like.
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If you are saying that you eat soil then it won't hurt you but nutrition wise you need to make sure you eat healthy food because you won't get the nutrition you need from soil. There is a name for the condition where people eat non food items but I don't know what it's called.
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The adult human body contains approximately 28g of magnesium.\n\nMagnesium is an essential mineral which is found in the muscles, soft tissues and body fluids. It works in conjunction with calcium and helps relax muscles.\n\n \nNecessary for healthy bone growth \nHelps nerve and muscle tissues to function \nHelps metabolise proteins and nucleic acids \nWorks on a cellular level in conjunction with calcium, sodium and potassium
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If you eat a normal, healthy balanced diet you are unlikey to need supplements.\nFor reliable medical/scientific advice look here:
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Chromium (a mineral) helps with sugary and salty addictions.  This is because your body is crying out for chromium and thats why you want sweet stuff.
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Sea food like mentioned above because of the level of zinc..which I forgot did what ?? (apart that is a healthy mineral to have) but.......I would guess you would have to eat a huge quantity of it !!!\n\nAnd oysters.........because.......of sexual connections with it as well.....\n\nI would say..yeah.....you eat healthily, you feel better, and the sexual appetite increases anyway.....all the junk food put you to sleep :-))\n\nHeavy food keeps you from being alert mentally and physically and sap your energy....\n\nI have heard people from Indian etc praising such and such thing...some spices..(Do not try dragon fly..never did myself..it is a poison!)........up to you to look it up and decide..\n\n--------------------------\n\nBut as somebody said (forgot who)....a glass of wine..and everybody will look beautiful to you :-)...mornings after will be a different story LOL !\n\n;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;\n\nForget about food...the BRAIN, the brain !!! Using it, people using it, being used by it etc etc...
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Poor lil question, hanging out here.\n\nI suppose the patient (or SURVIVOR as you strangely put it) will need blood work drawn after surgery to check for mineral deficiencies and a plan will be made at that time. SOme people will be able to retain food longer and get more out of it, those who cannot will need to take more supplements. This may be why the sites have differing info.
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no you are better off eating a balanced diet. Only take the supplements if you checked with your doctor first. If you take too many and too much,then you may notbe able to fight off illnesses  when the time comes.
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It really depends on what it is that you do eat.  Cetain grains and vegetable combinations carry everything you need to survive.  If you are eating these then you will be an extreamly healty person with no risk of heart disease.
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Eat more vegetables and fruits. Stay away from meats as much as possible. Use herbs whenever you can for nutrition and health. Swim whenever you can because swimming is the one activity you can do that utilizes every muscle in the body. Think about it. When you swim you even use your eye muscles as well as every other muscle from your toes to your eyebrows.
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eat healthy and exercise
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You require nutrition to maintain your body tissues. When you diet so severely that you starve yourself, your body goes into starvation mode, shutting down all "unnecessary" processes like hair and nail growth and the restoration of proper skin cells (your skin will become flakey and sallow without proper nutrition as well). \n\nYour body requires a certain amount of fat, especially the Omega 3 fats, as well as protein to maintain hair, nail, and skin production. \n\nIf your diet is so restrictive that your hair falls out, your health is in danger. This means that your body has begun burning its lean muscle mass as a form of "fuel." Note: your HEART is a muscle. You do not want this to happen. Lean muscle mass helps you burn fat and maintain a high metabolism. Keep all the muscle you have (as well as your hair) by eating enough calories to sustain proper bodily functions.
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Because u can develop an addiction, or ur body needs more salt, fats, etc.\n\nCravings r just ur body SCREAMING for something in particular, i.e vitimans, minerals etc\n\nFor example if u are craving an ice cream ur body may need calcium, so have a glass of milk, or a piece of cheese :D
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Fruit and vegetables contain vitamins, minerals and trace minerals as well as phytohormones and fibers. All these ingedigents are important in human diet but are included less and less in modern diets. They are supposed to have been mainstays of human diet in the past but not any more. \nThis is the reason why the recommendations name them - to remind us to eat them
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Salt. Your body cant process it in large quantities and it will end up poisoning you
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keep your body healthy,dietary or vitamins