300*250VITAMINS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO IN OUR BODY

Vitamins are organic food substances -that is, substances that occur naturally only in living things, plant and animal. They exist in food s in minute quantities; they are absolutely important necessary for proper maintenance of health. Plant manufacture their own vitamins. Animals obtain theirs from plants or from other animals that eat plants. However some animals manufacture in their own bodies some of the vitamins that they need. They are   not foods in the sense like the carbohydrates, fats and proteins that we know. These   are not needed in bulk to build our muscle or tissue. Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are broken down   into other substances which the body uses in the process of metabolism. This is not so with vitamins. They retain their original form in the body and are built into body structure, where they are important parts of the machinery of the cells. By their presence in the cells they bring   about   certain changes and processes, for instance, vitamin B does not cause increase in weight but the[H1] [H2] [H3]  vitamin B complex  can cause somebody  that is thin  as  a result of indigestion to increase in weight, it helps  in digestive  tract to utilize the  food completely. Essentially  these  vitamins can be basically source from vitamin supplements or food supplements.      

1.  Food supplement does not substitute for the food we need –it simply add vitamins to those already being eaten in foods. There  are  two classes of vitamins namely the (i)the water soluble vitamins(B  and C), these are not easily stored in the body system tissues ,so these must be supplied on daily bases.(2)the fat soluble vitamins are usually well stored by healthy persons, and these are lost readily once a severe deficiency has occurred. This is especially true when severe liver damage has taken place.

Three basic nutritional therapeutic principles are:

a.It should be Complete

b.it should be Intensive

c.it should be persistent

No half way measures can be successful. Vitamins, proteins, phosphates, fats,   the   trace   minerals are forever related like links in a chain. It is therefore useless to strengthen only one or several of these links when one consider the way body uses them as a result of their in terrelationship. When we say somebody is well fed depends on what his individual body needs are, how well planned his diet is, where his food come from, what drugs he is taking and what poisonous chemicals he is exposed to? All of these things must be considered with to every individual. Fa man eats a diet carefully planned tomeet his nutritional stresses or requirement then that individual can be considered to be well. According to experts , it is noted that  in the whole  world, there is probably only a handful of people who inherit an average  need  for each  and everyone  of the  40- odd known nutrients that are essential to human life and health. It is obvious from overwhelming majority of humans and animals as proof from experiments that have inherit a far from average need for atleast one two nutrients and once this needs is not satis fied then the body cells will fail to function properly which eventually lead to disease  takeover or sickness.

                                                             

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