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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

Publications (m inimum

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

KEYNOTE FORUM |

DAY 2

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