Vitamins and Minerals Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that every cell needs. Vitamins can function like hormones or as antioxidants. Minerals are essential to important bodily functions such as producing energy‚ growing‚ and healing. Minerals are required for fluid balance‚ development‚ nervous system maintenance .Minerals and vitamins‚ function as coenzymes and participate in enzymatic reactions in the body. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can affect the brain many different ways
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Vitamins and Minerals What are vitamins? Vitamins are nutrients that everyone needs in small amounts for the body to work properly. Different vitamins have different functions. For example‚ some enzymes need particular vitamins to work. Your body can’t make most vitamins apart from vitamin D‚ so you have to get them from the food you eat. There are two types of vitamins: water-soluble vitamins - these cannot be stored in your body and need to be replaced regularly in your diet fat-soluble
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VITAMINS AND MINERALS Vitamins and minerals make people’s bodies work properly. Although you get vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat every day‚ some foods have more vitamins and minerals than others. Vitamins fall into two categories: fat soluble and water soluble. The fat-soluble vitamins — A‚ D‚ E‚ and K — dissolve in fat and can be stored in your body. The water-soluble vitamins — C and the B-complex vitamins (such as vitamins B6‚ B12‚ niacin‚ riboflavin‚ and folate) — need to dissolve
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Vitamins and minerals :are often called micronutrient because body needs only small amount of them. Vita-life Amine-containing nitrogen • Vitamins are the organic compounds which enhance the metabolism of proteins‚ carbohydrates and fats. • Without vitamins the breakdown of food could not occur. • vitamins are participate in the formation of blood cells hormones nervous system and genetic material Classification of vitamins: Fat soluble vitamins ‚ *Water soluble vitamins Fat soluble
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Vitamin A Overview Vitamin A is a vitamin. It can be found in many fruits‚ vegetables‚ eggs‚ whole milk‚ butter‚ fortified margarine‚ meat‚ and oily saltwater fish. It can also be made in a laboratory. Uses treatment and prevention of vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency can occur in people with protein deficiency‚ diabetes‚ over-active thyroid‚ fever‚ liver disease‚ cystic fibrosis‚ or an inherited disorder called abetalipoproteinemia. Diseases i. Night Blindness: In the early stages
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NAME-FOSU-MENSAH EMMANUEL ID NUMBER-10372921 VITAMINS Vitamins are organic compounds which are needed in small quantities to sustain life. We get vitamins from food‚ because the human body either does not produce enough of them or none at all. An organic compound contains carbon. When an organism cannot produce enough of an organic chemical compound that it needs in tiny amounts‚ and has to get it from food‚ it is called a vitamin. Sometimes the compound is a vitamin for a human but not for some other
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Minerals What are Food Minerals? * Food minerals are those minerals that begin in the ground or sea. * Enzymes need minerals to build strong healthy life forms‚ whether plant‚ animal or human bodies. * Minerals and enzymes work together to make us look beautiful and feel strong. * Minerals are a major part of every cell and the larger variety we have in our food. Classification Of Minerals * Calcium * Magnesium * Potassium * Sodium * Zinc * Phosphorus
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We all know that the health organizations issued a warning about the cholesterol contained in eggs. But‚ the real truth is that eggs‚ just like many other foods‚ such as: coconut oil or avocados‚ eggs were mistakenly thought to be bad for your health. Really‚ the egg yolk offers a lot of supplements and medical advantages. Up to 90% of the egg’s calcium and iron are situated in its yolk‚ which makes it absolutely sound and prescribed. Then again‚ the egg white offers some characteristic proteins
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Food Group Everyone deals with food every day; whether they are cooking it‚ smelling it‚ buying it‚ or simply eating it. The problem that many people encounter when it comes to food is choosing the healthy foods. Some people may even think they are eating healthy‚ when in reality their diet is lacking some of the necessary food products that would provide them with the vitamins and nutrition that their body requires. There are many ways in which people can keep track of their food intake; one way
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multiple Vitamin and Mineral Supplement with DHA. I also have Equate Woman’s One Daily with calcium‚ Iron‚ and Zinc multivitamin and Mineral Supplement. My son‚ although an adult‚ prefers the taste of a chewable‚ which is why I have Spider-man vitamins on hand for a 20 year old. The benefit of taking either of these vitamins every day is that no matter what you eat each day‚ since a daily diet usually varies‚ your body is guaranteed to receive at least the minimum amount of essential vitamins and
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