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Taurine, in human welfare; Components of Nutraceuticals & functional
foods; Assurance to Good health-Female Adventitious
R .C. Gupta
SASRD, Nagaland University
Medziphema 797106 India
ABSTRACT
Though world is because of women and it is true that she create, care and
never think to destroy. She does all these with selfless motive yet when it comes to their
happiness, it is ignore by all. It is very hard to listen, allow speaking, understanding and
acting for them, majority of time they are made silence by voice, force or fraud whether it
is for philosophy, food, function or physiology. Food is basic need of life others comes
later; a fragile woman may produce a weak generation putting a question on togetherness
of society and subsequently the nation as a whole. The history says there is always
nutritional discrimination between men and women and this is a reason behind early
ageing, disease prone, fragile structure in women. Now it is right time to think, act and
correct the past happening by not supplementing equal but even greater to female entirety
as they are the core of nation development, sustainability and continuity. protein,
Vitamins, minerals, amino acids are strength providing molecules .Amino acids are now
regarded as carriers of various information and involves in brain functioning, heart
monitoring, and regulation of vital organs like kidney, eye, gastrointestinal functions.
Sulfur containing amino acids are not many but one of it, Taurine; Chemically it is 2Amino Ethane Sulfonic Acid (NH2-CH2 CH2 SO3H) a β – sulphur amino acid is seems to
essential for growth and development. Though it is not a constituent of protein but it is
most abundant free amino acid in Human. It is found in almost all the living creature but
lesser in botanical substances. It participates in sulphur cycle in nature and in sulphur
metabolism from micro-organism to highly complex humans. Marine animal, fishes have
higher contents of taurine and people living in surrounding of such area are known to
have extended longevity with elixir of life. To add further cow milk on which majority of
infants survive don’t has taurine, however women breast milk contains high
concentration .It is observed that taurine deficiency during embryonic development and
in early stages may develop “disease of generation” hence for sound and disease free
future; addition of taurine in food will be a guanine way to cope with climate changes &
ill environmental consequences. Food does not need an introduction. It is very hard to
trace its origin yet it is dynamics in nature. The concept of food changes from time to
time; but for majority it is stills a source to prevent huger, yet for some other, it is also a
media for socialization. In the recent time, food has acquired an addition value; as a
source to reduce the risk of diseases. The latest value addition of food to fight against
disease is basically to maintain, normal functioning of the various organs. Hence to
accommodate all such happening, a new term has been coined, and named functional
food. Because of all these activating is known as meta-vitamin, with status of conditional
essential amino acid and possibly also as pharmaco-nutrient. Medicine and food have a
common origin. A food can be regarded as ‘functional’ If it is satisfactorily able to
demonstrate its beneficial effects on one or more target functions in the body thus
improving the state of health and strengthening the well being and or participating in
reduction of risk of diseases. Such nutriceulicals in broader term must remains as
component of food rather than individually as capsule or in other forms. There is
increasing evidences that sulfur amino acids (SAA) play an important metabolic and
functional role in human health and decease prevention. It is further observed that SAA
also provide elemental Sulfur require for growth and development, and in general, it is
source of energy and nutrient needs of various life processes. Taurine has a wide
spectrum of beneficial actions in human, animal and in plants. Cat and dogs in absence of
taurine can become blind and may not reproduce healthy offspring’s in human too it has
beneficial actions in correction organ disorder from eye to ear and brain to heart. To
make life more enjoyable it participates in alleviating suffering from diabetes to smoking
and drinking. No one loves ageing and taurine does have effect on lowering the ageing
symptoms as well as modifying the mood to have pleasure. The addition of taurine to
food comes under the functional food .Providing nutritious food to women folk will
beside providing physical strength, also provide mental ability to think ,do and fight
against the “Silence of Grand Mother “ and if in reality it happen this world will have real
equality or even adventitious to female.