Sentence examples for micronutrients from inspiring English sources

Avoiding deficiencies is one thing, but when it comes to isolating mood-enhancing foods, and the micronutrients within them, firm knowledge remains beyond our grasp.

A new concept at the time, integrated MDA combines treatment for NTDs with the distribution of micronutrients and vaccines for children.

Five of their top ten involved nutrition: vitamin supplements for children, adding zinc and iodine to salt and breeding extra micronutrients into crops (like those sweet potatoes).

Even marriage chances wane: malnourished boys marry women of lower educational levels when they grow up.Common responses include handing out vitamin pills and fortifying common foods with micronutrients (such as putting iodine in salt).

Nutritionally, this translates into fewer calories, a healthy dose of the ever popular antioxidants, some salubrious micronutrients, as well as oodles of dietary fibre which makes these easier for the body to absorb.Crucially, cookies still taste like cookies and not, as some may fret, sushi at least to Babbage's tastebuds.

But if it is starved of the necessary calories, proteins and micronutrients, it is stunted, perhaps not as severely as a muscle would be, but stunted nonetheless.

Typically, though, such a diet will also be deficient in many micronutrients.

It affects those with enough calories to eat but too few micronutrients (vitamins, minerals and so on).

What's more, concentrating on calories ignores the important role of micronutrients such as minerals and vitamins (see article).

If 20 years later the family gets a more plentiful yet still poor diet (with a lot of calories but not many micronutrients, such as iron or vitamins) she will become overweight or obese, while her children will suffer nutritional deficiency, such as anaemia or blindness.

Insects are also high in protein, minerals and micronutrients.