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Health, Fitness & Nutrition
Calcium
Calcium works alongside vitamin D in helping to build healthy teeth and bones, in addition to this calcium can help with:
- Lowering the blood pressure and regulating the heartbeat
- Regulates the contractions within our muscles
- Helps the blood to clot
- Maintains the cell membranes
- Helps the body to absorb vitamin B12
All dairy products are rich sources of calcium and growing children need 4 servings per day and adults need about 3. The foods listed below contain about 400 milligrams of calcium.
Health, Fitness & Nutrition
Protein is needed by our bodies for our muscles, skin, hair and internal organs, protein travels around the body in blood as hormones, red blood cells and enzymes. Protein is the only food source of nitrogen and is made up of chains of amino acid and there are 22 amino acids, eight of these acids are called the essential amino acids because our bodies cannot make them we must get them from our diet.