Types of Nutrients

1. helps your muscles to move and for nerves to carry messages between your brain and every part of your body. It also helps blood vessels move blood throughout your body and helps release hormones that affect many functions in your body.
3. is essential for the immune system, wound healing, blood clotting, thyroid function, and the senses of taste and smell. It also supports normal growth and development during pregnancy, childhood and adolescence.
5. helps with growth and development. Your body uses it to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. Your body also needs it to make some hormones.
6. help you resist infections and keep your nerves healthy, while also help your body get energy from food and help your blood clot properly.
8. a substance that provides nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.
9. helps the body stay healthy. It also helps in regulating muscle and nerve function, blood sugar levels, and blood pressure and making protein, bone and DNA.
10. provide the body with glucose, which is converted to energy and used to support bodily functions and physical activities.

2. help you build strong bones and teeth, control body fluids inside and outside cells and turn the food you eat into energy.
4. helps maintain normal levels of fluid inside our cells. It also helps muscles to contract and support normal blood pressure.
7. made up of chemical 'building blocks' called amino acids which your body uses to build and repair muscles and bones and to make hormones and enzymes. They can also be used as an energy source.