Vitamins
Vitamins are essential to life. They provide for good health by regulating all of our body’s functions. For example, they help the body produce energy from the foods that we eat, supply the substances to repair broken bones, provide for replacing skin, help us see, allow for healthy hair and nail growth, insure proper functioning of our heart, brain, digestive system, immune system, and nervous system.
Vitamins are divided into two groups; water-soluble and fat- soluble. Water-soluble vitamins are C, and the B vitamins, while fat-soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K. The body needs both types of vitamins every day for good health.
We provide you with the following information for the main vitamins:
- Description: The activity of the vitamin
- Complementary Nutrients: a list of nutrients that help the vitamins do their work
- Antagonists: things that prevent the vitamin from working properly
- Health Benefits: specific health benefits the vitamin provides
- Therapeutic Uses: aliments that can be cured by the vitamin
- Deficiency Indicators: symptoms that indicate a lack of the vitamin
- Dosage: the daily amount of the vitamin to take
- Sources: foods that provide the vitamin
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