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Calcium rich food

Todays topic is about calcium, its role,food contents which are rich in calcium and ways to prevent reduced calcium count and protect the health of bones.As this was requested by one of the regular visitor here i am with this topic. Introduction:- ------------ To begin with calcium is the essential component of the body.Its a mineral which helps in building the skeletal frame of the body.Bones and the teeth in our body mainly contains calcim with phoshorus that is in the form of calcium phosphate. Calcium is one such mineral which is produced in our body to a little extent .It is absorbed from the blood and store in bones to a little extent. Generally the growth of the body takes place from 0-25 yrs of age.It various in each indivisual.Noramally at an average - Femals its from 0-19 yrs Males its 0-22 yrs at an average. This is mainly carried out by the growth harmaone which is released from pitutory glands located in the brain.But the body continues to built up the bone mass and the d...

Simple methods to gain weight

My todays topic is a request by a friend.Feel free to ask for the topics of your choice and i'll be happy to post them.Well many of the indivisuals are facing the problem of underweight.due to many reasons one may not gain weight and by eating or following same procedures the other may easily gain weight.There are various reason for this. Causes: --------- 1.Inheritance: ------------ It may be due to the genes.Parents or one of the parent has the nature of not gaining weight even though the person involves in any type of food habbits or regimen.So this will be inherited by the offspring also. 2.Absorption: ------------ There may be some problem because of which the persons intestine may not be able to absorb the essential materials or end products of digestion which inturn results in malnurishment thus leading to underweight. 3.Digestive problems: ----------------- The indivisual may not be in the state of having enough food due to some causes like for eg- some get indigestion if t...