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Sarah
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 Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: Vitmans ! What you need and why |
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Vitamin A (fat-soluble)Sources: Dairy products, eggs, liver. Can be converted by the body from the beta-carotene found in green vegetables, carrots and liver.
Uses: Maintains the health of the epithelium and acts on the retina's dark adaptation mechanism.
Deficiency leads to: Keratinisation of the nasal and respiratory passage epithelium, night blindness
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) (water-soluble)Sources: Yeast, egg yolk, liver, wheatgerm, nuts, red meat and cereals
Uses: Carbohydrate metabolism
Deficiency leads to: Fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite; severe deficiency can lead to beri-beri
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) (water-soluble)
Sources: Dairy products, liver, vegetables, eggs, cereals, fruit, yeast
Uses: Intracellular metabolism
Deficiency leads to: Painful tongue and fissures to the corners of the mouth, chapped lips
Vitamin B12 (water-soluble)
Sources: Liver, red meat, dairy products and fish
Uses: Essential for manufacturing of genetic material in cells. Involved in the production of erythrocytes
Deficiency leads to: pernicious anaemia
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) (water-soluble) Sources: Green vegetables and fruit
Uses: Essential for the maintenance of bones, teeth and gums, ligaments and blood vessels. It is also necessary for ensuring a normal immune response to infection
Deficiency leads to: Scurvy
Vitamin D (fat-soluble)Sources: Fish liver oils, dairy produce. Vitamin D is formed in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight
Uses: Has a role in the absorption of calcium, which is essential for the maintenance of healthy bones
Deficiency leads to: Rickets
Vitamin E (fat-soluble)Sources: Pure vegetable oils; wheatgerm, wholemeal bread and cereals, egg yoke, nuts sunflower seeds
Uses: Protects tissues against damage; promotes normal growth and development; helps in normal red blood cell formation
Deficiency leads to: May cause muscular dystrophy
Vitamin K (fat-soluble)Sources: Green vegetables
Uses: Used by the liver for the formation of prothrombin
Deficiency leads to: Bleeding due to delayed clotting times caused by lack of clotting factors. Patients may show signs of bruising easily and have nosebleeds.
http://www.healthydirect.co.uk
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Lorna
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| All people need is one good multi-vit tablet, theres no need to buy individual vitamins in excessive quantities especially as many of the vitamins can be toxic in high dosage ! |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| This is really useful, what about minerals and metals, such as iron ? |
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redrose
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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All you need is to have an healthy diet rather than to shuv a load of vitmans down your throat, that will in all likelyhood get pissed out of your system
Okay if your diet is poor then yes vitiamins are usefull |
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sillymoney
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| Vitamin D is more useful in the winter months when theres less sunlight. |
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Sarah
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Joanne wrote: | | This is really useful, what about minerals and metals, such as iron ? |
Hi Joanne
The minerals the body needs are divided into two categories. These two categories are: Major minerals and Trace Minerals. The difference between the categories mainly has to do with the amounts the body requires. The body must have a minimum of 100 milligrams per day to carry out the bodily functions associated with the Major minerals. In the case of Trace minerals, on a per day basis, less than 100 milligrams are required.
Major Minerals
Calcium
Phosphorus
Magnesium
Sodium
Potassium
Sulphur
Chloride
Trace Minerals
Chromium
Copper
Fluoride
Iodine
Iron
Manganese
Molybdenum
Selenium
Zinc
Mineral Sources
All Minerals come from the ground but as few of us eat dirt and rocks, so how does our body get the minerals it needs from the food that we eat? Minerals primarily make their way into our bodies by way of the foods that grow from the ground and the animals that survive off the land. Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, poultry, dairy products, grains, legumes. These and others are the primary sources of the minerals our bodies need to survive.
What's also interesting is that individuals who eat a lot of processed foods or who fail to consume a nutritionally-balanced diet often suffer from diseases that have been directly attributed to vitamin and mineral related deficiencies.
Much controversy surrounds the subject of mineral supplementation. Ideally, people should strive to meet their daily mineral requirements from food because, as is the case with some vitamins, excessive amounts of some minerals inside the body can have a toxic effect. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| i've been told that all vitimin suppliments are a waste of money. i was told this by all the science professors at UCL. if you eat a good diet, u should get all the vitamins and minerals you should ever need. an excess of some vitamins have actually been proven to be a brain toxin |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| banannabal wrote: | | i've been told that all vitimin suppliments are a waste of money. i was told this by all the science professors at UCL. if you eat a good diet, u should get all the vitamins and minerals you should ever need. an excess of some vitamins have actually been proven to be a brain toxin |
Yeh, there have been a lot of reports saying they don't make any difference such as http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2096672.stm
Dr Jane Armitage from the University of Oxford's clinical trial services unit said the £21m five-year study had given disappointing results for vitamin use.
Vitamin pills are a waste of time
Rory Collins, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Oxford
"It was disappointing we did not see any benefits at all in either heart diseases or cancer."
But she added that the trial, by the Heart Protection Study, had only looked at a specific combination of vitamins and that there was no evidence to show that other vitamins did not prove beneficial.
"There is a lot of evidence that vitamins in the diet are a good thing such as eating fresh fruit and vegetables."
The people studied were given relatively high doses of vitamins - 600mg of vitamin E, 250mg of vitamin C and 20mg of beta-carotene.
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I have heard a lot of good things about Omega 3 - so better safe than sorry ? |
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