

19
th
International Conference on
Obesity, Healthcare - Nutrition & Fitness
March 18 - 19, 2019 | New York, USA
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Vitamins herbs and
nutritional supplements
D
ietary
supplements
include vitamins, minerals,
herbs, botanicals, nzymes,
amino acids, or other dietary
ingredients. You take these
products
by mouth
in pill, capsule, tablet, or
liquid form to supplement
your diet. A supplement
can provide nutrients either
extracted from food sources
or synthetic, individually or
in combination, in order to
increase the quantity of their
consumption. The class of
nutrient compounds includes
vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty
acids and amino acids. Dietary
supplements can also contain
substances that have not been
confirmed as being essential
to life, but are marketed as
having a beneficial biological
effect, such as plant pigments
or polyphenols.Animals can
also be asource of Recent
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supplement ingredients, as
for example collagen from
chickens or fish. These are
also sold individually and
in combination, and may
Rucha Majmundar Mehta
Clinical Nutrition from Bombay
University, India
be combined with nutrient
ingredients. In the United
States and Canada, dietary
supplements are considered
a subset of foods, and
are regulated accordingly.
Multivitamins are the most
commonly used product. For
those who fail to consume
a balanced diet, the United
States National Institutes of
Health states that certain
supplements “may have
value. The essential nutrient
minerals for humans, listed
in order by weight needed
to be at the Recommended
Dietary Allowance or Adequate
Intake are potassium, chlorine,
sodium, calcium, phosphorus,
magnesiu m, iron, zinc,
manganese, copper, iodine,
chromium, molybdenum, sele
nium and cobalt (the last as a
component of vitamin B12).
Biography
Rucha Majmundar Mehta
has completed her PhD
in Clinical Nutrition from
Bombay University and she
has completed GCP & GvP
Auditing studies from BARQA
–UK. She is practicing as
consultant Clinical Nutritionist
since 22 years in various multi-
JOURNAL OF OBESITY &WEIGHT LOSS THERAPY 2019, VOLUME: 4 | DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C2-092
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Speciality hospitals in India.
She is first to introduce the
NEED and IMPORTANCE of
Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition
and Immune Nutrients in ICU
and Critical Care in the state.
She have Formulated Enteral
Nutrition Formula (Total Range)
for the Reputed Multinational
Pharmaceutical Co. She
Developed the Concept of
Immune nutrients in Critical
care and ICU in state of Gujarat
She has been participating
as a Faculty in International,
National and State level annual
conferences.
ruchamehta@hotmail.com