Micronutrients - Nutrition and Diet

Whenever we eat, drink or breathe, hundreds of chemical elements and composites enter our body and interact with us on several different levels. Our body is a car that needs constant fueling, but being a complex one it requires several types of fuels. For example, we get oxygen from breathing, blood and oxygen are transported throughout the body by the water that we drink and most of the other essential elements are obtained through eating.

Some of these elements that we need to eat are essential, but some are essential in large quantities, called macronutrients, whereas some can get their job done with less intake: micronutrients. It's this last category that I'll try to cover and explain in the following article and I'll also try to keep it as simple and non-scientific as possible.