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  • Vitamin A - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin A, a fat-soluble vitamin, plays essential roles in vision, growth, and development; the development and maintenance of healthy skin, hair, and mucous membranes; immune functions; and reproduction.
  • Vitamin B1 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B1, known as thiamin, helps fuel your body by converting blood sugar into energy. It keeps your mucous membranes healthy and is essential for nervous system, cardiovascular and muscular function.
  • Vitamin B2 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamins B2 is also called Riboflavin. It is a water-soluble vitamin, which is involved in vital metabolic processes in the body, and is necessary for normal cell function, growth, and energy production
  • Vitamin B3 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B3 is a water-soluble vitamin vital for energy release in tissues and cells. Vitamin B3 is also called niacin. Like all the B-complex vitamins, it is important for converting calories from protein, fat and carbohydrates into energy.
  • Vitamin B6 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B6 is one of the best-studied of all B vitamins and has one of the greatest varieties of chemical forms. The forms of this vitamin all begin with the letters "pyr," and include pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyridoxine phosphate, pyridoxal phosphate, and pyridoxamine phosphate.
  • Vitamin B7 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B7 is known as vitamin Biotin, or occasionally as vitamin H. It is a B-complex vitamin which is important in the catalysis of essential metabolic reactions to synthesize fatty acids, in gluconeogenesis, and to metabolize leucine.
  • Vitamin B9 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B9 is also known as Folic Acid or Folate. This vitamin is required for energy production, formation of red and white blood cells (immunity), and is considered brain food. Normal red blood cell production prevents anemia
  • Vitamin B12 - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin B12 helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells. It is also needed to help make DNA, the genetic material in all cells. Vitamin B12 is also called cobalamin because it contains the metal cobalt.
  • Vitamin C - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin C is a water soluble and an antioxidant vitamin. Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid. It is one of the more readily available vitamins for most people around the world. Commercial vitamin C is often a mix of ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate and/or other ascorbates.
  • Choline - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Choline is indispensable for a number of fundamental processes in the body. Choline is a water soluble member of the Vitamin B complex. It is not a true vitamin as it is synthesized in the liver.
  • Vitamin D - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that is found in food and can also be made in your body after exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. Sunshine is a significant source of vitamin D because UV rays from sunlight trigger vitamin D synthesis in the skin.
  • PABA - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    The full name of this water soluble vitamin is para-aminobenzoic acid. This occurs as a component of folic acid, although it is usually referred to as a separate B complex vitamin.
  • Vitamin P - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin P is also called Bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids are the water-soluble companions of ascorbic acid, usually found in the same foods.
  • Vitamin K - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources
    Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin. Vitamin K is found in nature in two forms i.e. K1 and K2. K1 is also called phylloquinone is found in plants and vitamin K2 is also called menaquinone, which can be synthesized by many bacteria.
  • Amino acids - Benefits of Amino acids
    Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. When an amino acid forms into something that can be absorbed into the body, it is called protein synthesis. There are twenty standard amino acids. Other amino acids that are found in proteins are formed through a different process.
  • Alphabiotics - Benefits of Alphabiotics
    Alphabioticists are responsible for assisting people in unifying the various aspects of them. While some of these parts are sacred, other parts are of a lower level. Despite this, the overall goal of the Alphabioticists is to help people attain a higher well being.
  • Spirulina, natural nutrition that benefits your health
    Spirulina is a single-celled, spiral-shaped blue green microalgae grown in tropical salt lakes. This microalgae is discovered by Dr. Clement of France in 1962. Dr. Clement found that the Ganimou people living around Lake Chades in Africa had stronger bodies than other civilized people at that time, despite poor living conditions and few resources.
  • Alkaline and Acidic Food
    There are 2 main types of food: acidic food and alkaline food. Examples of acidic food are meat, fish, prawns, chicken, bread and flour. Alkaline food are vegetables, milk, seaweeds, fruits and egg white.
  • Nutrition & Diet Therapy for better health
    Nutrients required in a healthy diet includes thhe basic four: water, protein, carbohydrates and fats. Besides these, micronutrients are also essential and required in smaller quantities. These includes vitamins and minerals.
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