Be healthy and live a long life- everyone dreams about it, this site is about vitamins and their role in our life.
A vitamin ( from Latin vita=life + amine, a kind of chemical related to amino acids, which vitamins once thought to contain) – any of a number of substances that are present in various foods and are essential to keep people healthy. Vitamins are organic compounds, that human organism cannot produce, that is why vitamins should be taken from food.
The classification of the vitamins is made by their biological and chemical activity. Every vitamin has a set of chemicals and is grouped alphabetically: vitamin A, B, C, etc.
Vitamins can be water soluble or fat soluble. Fat soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K and water-soluble are 8 B vitamins and vitamin C.
Vitamins have different basic biochemical regulations in human body. Vitamin D works as hormone-like regulator of mineral metabolism, vitamin A is a regulator of cell and tissue growth. Vitamin E is an antioxidant.
Human organism can produce all sorts of things, but it can’t do vitamins. Vitamins are organic compound and can be taken from food. Different foods contain different vitamins, so more variety in food gives a better chance to have all vitamins and be healthy.
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