Renew your Nutrients Mindset (Vitamins)

About Vitamins

• An essential nutrient needed by humans to live and grow

• Important roles in cell metabolism; life sustaining chemical transformations

Vitamin A

Fat soluble

• Benefits; cell reproduction, vital for healthy eyes, helps maintain health hair & skin

• Deficiencies cause;

• Sources; fruits; mangoes, watermelon, tomatoes

• Sources; vegetables;  broccoli, carrots, spinach

B Vitamins

Water-soluble

• Benefits;

B1 (thiamine)

B2 (riboflavin); Energy

B3 (niacin);  

B9 (folic acid); to synthesize and repaid DNA & RNA, and to produce healthy red blood calls

B12 (cobalamin); Nervous system regulation reducing depression, stress & brain shrinkage

Biotin; Health hair & nails, essential for body utilisation of essential fatty acids and amino acids.

• Deficiencies cause; 

• Sources; synthesized by the sun

Vitamin C

• Benefits; Boosts immune system

• Deficiencies cause; 

• Sources; Oranges

Vitamin D

• Benefits; Calcium absorption for bone strengthening

• Deficiencies cause; 

• Sources, nuts

Vitamin E

• Benefits; Antioxidant, inhibits oxidation, preventing propagation of free radicals, which damage and kill cells

• Deficiencies cause;

• Sources;

 

Vitamin K

Fat soluble

• Benefits; crucial for proper blood clotting

• Deficiencies cause;

• Sources; Spinach, cabbage, swiss chard, meat, eggs

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Reference

• B Vitamins, website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins

• Vitamin K, website, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219867.php

• http://www.health-alternatives.com/vitamins-nutrition-chart.html