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- noun Plural form of
micronutrient .
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The minerals calcium, sodium, and potassium, and the vitamins folic acid and vitamin C are called micronutrients because your body needs them in small amounts.
The Most Complete Food Counter, 2nd Edition Annette B. Natow Ph.d. 2006
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These vitamins, along with the essential minerals, which can also be called micronutrients, are things that your body needs, in small amounts, which promote good biochemical reactions within your body and within your cells.
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These are called micronutrients because you need them in smaller amounts than the basic "big" four macronutrients.
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• Malnutrition and lack of "micronutrients" such as iron.
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Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists including three Nobelists, calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit "global warming."
Archive 2007-11-01 GayandRight 2007
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Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists including three Nobelists, calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit "global warming."
A moral imperative...and global warming... GayandRight 2007
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Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobelists), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit "global warming."
My Nobel Moment John R. Christy 2007
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Vitamins and minerals are "micronutrients" your body needs in small but steady amounts.
Livescience.com 2010
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Vitamins and minerals are "micronutrients" your body needs in small but steady amounts.
Livescience.com 2010
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Shenggen Fan, the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, says farmers should be encouraged to grow crops with higher levels of micronutrients like Vitamin A and iron.
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