Although the investigations into and discoveries of vitamins began a bit earlier, Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, was the first to formulate the concept of vitamins in 1912. Funk then coined the word vitamine, but it was later modified to vitamin. How does vitamin A help your body? Great question. Vitamin A helps you to [...]
There are many different Vitamins in foods. Vitamins are essential to life, but most of us do not get the amount of vitamins we need in our every day diet. Certain foods are high not only in one vitamin, but many. Let us take Broccoli, for example.Broccoli is probably one of the most nutritional foods [...]
Vitamins (combination of two words: Vital Amines) are the complex organic substance essential in small quantities to the metabolism (nutrition) in most animals. These are found in minute quantities in food, in some cases are produced by the body, and are also produced synthetically. The human body needs them to work properly, so that we [...]
Vitamin A or Retinol is a fat-soluble vitamin and plays an important role in vision, development and maintenance of healthy skin, hair, mucous membranes; immune functions; and reproduction. Vitamin A or retinol, helps your eyes to adjust to light alteration when you come in from outside and also helps keep your eyes, skin and mucous [...]
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