iron functions: essential for making hemoglobin helps white blood cells caries oxygen to other cells...
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Iron
• Functions: essential for making hemoglobin• Helps white blood cells caries oxygen to other
cells
• Food Sources: fish, shellfish, egg yolks, leafy vegetables, and dry beans
• Deficiency disease: iron deficiency anemia symptoms: tired, weak, short of breath, pale, and felling cold
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Copper
• Functions: enzymes rely on copper to do there work copper helps hemoglobin and collagen
• Food Sources: whole grain foods, seafood, peas and nuts
• Deficiency disease: deficiencys are rare
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Iodine
• Functions: stored in the thyroid gland produces substances needed for growth and development
• Food Sources: salt water fish, iodized salt
• Deficiency disease: goiter, a lump can form at the front of the neck babies can be born with mental retardation
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Fluoride
• Functions: prevents tooth decay and strengthen bones
• Food Sources: many communities add the mineral to there drinking water
• Deficiency disease: tooth decay
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Selenium
• Functions: antioxidant maintains muscles, red blood cells, hair and nails scientist think it may protect from certain cancers
• Food Sources: whole grain foods, vegetables, fish, and shellfish
• Deficiency disease: N/A
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Zinc
• Functions: helps enzymes do their work aids the immune system and helps heal wounds
• Food Sources: liver, poultry, fish, shellfish, dairy products, dry beans, peas, and nuts
• Deficiency disease: growth retardation, poor appetite, loss of taste, dry skin, and depression