Food can provide energy and nutrients to the body. Food is the source of energy that one gains to refuel the body which has exhausted fighting with stress.
Is that all..? No! Food will provide nutrients like vitamins and minerals. The role of vitamins and minerals are again to fight with stress. It mainly lays its hands on the immune system.
You all know very well from the previous articles on stress that stress will lower your immunity and thus makes the way for infections and other illnesses. So it’s the role of minerals and vitamins to help the immune system to gets its grace back.
- The roles of Vitamin C in fighting with infections that may occur as a result of stress have been explained in the previous article. The sources of vitamin C and its RDA have also been given. Do go through that article if you haven’t read that.
Now let me explain the role of Zinc
- Zinc is needed for the body not to just fight with infections. But this mineral is capable of strengthening the immune system as a whole.
Importance of Zinc
- Zinc is that mineral which is involved in protein synthesis
- Zinc is needed for the synthesis of nucleic acid
- Gives backing to the functions of carbonic anhydrase
- Gives backing to the functions of phosphate
- More over zinc makes the immune system healthy
The Food Sources of Zinc
- Cereals
- Nuts
- Pulses
- Oyster
- Millets
- Herring fish
3 to 12 mg of zinc is required per day.
- Carbohydratesdo play a role in relieving stress.
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