Author(s):

Chitra Prabhakar

Abstract: We need nutrients for maintenance of constant body weight and for ensuring proper body function. Infants and young children grow rapidly and require nutrients not only for maintenance but also for growth. They require relatively more nutrients (2-3 times) per kg body weight than adults. In physiological conditions like pregnancy and lactation, adult woman needs additional nutrients to meet the demand for foetal growth and maternal tissue expansion in pregnancy and milk secretion during lactation. These extra intakes of nutrients are essential for normal growth of infants in utero and during early post-natal life. The aim of the study is to find the correlation of iron with other nutrients. When considering their children's nutrition, parents often think more about fat grams, carbs, and calories, and forget about iron, a mineral that is important to help building red blood cells. We can get iron from food source vegetables. The level of iron and other nutrients were highly correlated, the level of iron can affect human body growth and health also. Iron helps in RBC maintenance. The study suggests more emphasis on dietary iron intake and probably recommend iron supplements for the socioeconomically compromised class who probably cannot afford dietary sources of iron. There was a positive correlation between levels of iron with other nutrients.

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