Vitamins
Vitamins or vitamins are organic compounds needed by the human body in limited quantities. Vitamins are obtained from food. Many vitamins can not be produced by the human body even in small quantities, and therefore need to be obtained from external sources. Some vitamins are produced by the body, but in insufficient quantities, and therefore need to compensate for the remaining amount of food.
Vitamins are essential for the human body; vitamins can not be dispensed with; vitamins need to continue to perform their various functions, and they need to improve the performance of some functions, prevent certain diseases, and need them to produce energy and build tissues and cells; Of health problems and diseases, so doctors are always advised to maintain a balanced and healthy diet, so that the body supplies the vitamins it needs.
Foods that can be obtained from vitamins are many and varied, and vitamins can not be obtained all from one food, but from a variety of foods. If a person wants to get the vitamins he needs, he must adhere to a healthy diet and balanced, They have the vitamins they need, and they do not have to eat just one kind of food.
All vitamins are important to the human body, and should be obtained continuously in small amounts and limited, divided into two vitamins: fat soluble vitamins, such as: Vitamin A, vitamin D, water-soluble vitamins, such as: Vitamin C and vitamin B.
The number of vitamins to thirteen vitamin, which is as follows:
- Vitamin A, vitamin A, and the most important sources: vegetables, milk and its derivatives, eggs, and meat.
- Vitamin C / Vitamin C, the most important sources: fruits, vegetables, milk, liver.
- Vitamin D / Vitamin D, and its most important sources: fish, milk and its derivatives, eggs, and the body can produce this vitamin when exposed to sunlight.
- Vitamin E, vitamin E, and its most important sources: vegetables, avocados, kiwi, milk and its derivatives, and eggs.
- Vitamin K / Vitamin K, the most important sources: parsley, cabbage, avocado, kiwi, fish, eggs, beef.
The following vitamins are the group B vitamins:
- Vitamin B1, or Thymine.
- Vitamin B 2, or riboflavin.
- Vitamin B3, or niacin.
- Vitamin B5, or pantothenic acid.
- Vitamin B6.
- Vitamin B7, or biotin.
- Vitamin B 9, or folic acid.
- Vitamin B12.