Prevention is better than cure. The earlier a person starts to eat a healthy and balanced diet,
\nthe more he or she will stay healthy. A healthy diet prevents malnutrition and protects from
\ndiseases like obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke. Today, many people consume
\nlot of saturated fat, trans fats, sugars, and more sodium than fruits, vegetables and dietary fiber
\nwhich will reflect to our body in reverse one day without any notice.<\/p>\n
Vitamins<\/strong><\/p>\n These are organic compounds we require in tiny amounts. An organic compound is any molecule that contains carbon. It is called a vitamin when our bodies cannot synthesize (produce) enough or any of it. So we have to obtain it from our food. Vitamins are classified by what they do biologically – their biological and chemical activity – and not their structure.<\/p>\n Vitamins are classified as water soluble (they can dissolve in water) or fat soluble (they can dissolve in fat). For humans there are 4 fat-soluble (A, D, E, and K) and 9 water-soluble (8 B vitamins and vitamin C) vitamins – a total of 13. Water soluble vitamins need to be consumed more regularly because they are eliminated faster and are not readily stored. Urinary output is a good predictor of water soluble vitamin consumption. Several water-soluble vitamins are manufactured by bacteria.<\/p>\n Fat soluble vitamins are absorbed through the intestines with the help of fats (lipids). They are more likely to accumulate in the body because they are harder to eliminate quickly. Excess levels of fat soluble vitamins are more likely than with water-soluble vitamins – this condition is called hypervitaminosis. Patients with cystic fibrosis need to have their levels of fat-soluble vitamins closely monitored.<\/p>\n We know that most vitamins have many different reactions, which means they have several different functions. Below is a list of vitamins, and some details we know about them:<\/p>\n Vitamin A<\/strong> Most foods contain a combination of some, or all of the seven nutrient classes. We require some nutrients regularly, and others less frequently. Poor health may be the result of either not enough or too much of a nutrient, or some nutrients – an imbalance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Healthy and balanced nutrition is very important for everyone. Good nutrition is fundamental for good health. It is the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-why-nutrition-is-important"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVitamins and foods illustration
\nPopular food sources of vitamins<\/p>\n![\"nutrition](\"https:\/\/www.healthc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/nutrition_chat-300x300.jpg\")
\nchemical names – retinol, retinoids and carotenoids.
\nSolubility – fat.
\nDeficiency disease – Night-blindness.
\nOverdose disease – Keratomalacia (degeneration of the cornea).
\nVitamin B1<\/strong>
\nchemical name – thiamine.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – beriberi, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
\nOverdose disease – rare hypersensitive reactions resembling anaphylactic shock when overdose is due to injection. Drowsiness.
\nVitamin B2<\/strong>
\nchemical name – riboflavin
\nSolubility – water
\nDeficiency disease – ariboflanisosis (mouth lesions, seborrhea, and vascularization of the cornea).
\nOverdose disease – no known complications. Excess is excreted in urine.
\nVitamin B3<\/strong>
\nchemical name – niacin.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – pellagra.
\nOverdose disease – liver damage, skin problems, and gastrointestinal complaints, plus other problems.
\nVitamin B5<\/strong>
\nchemical name -pantothenic acid.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – paresthesia (tingling, pricking, or numbness of the skin with no apparent long-term physical effect).
\nOverdose disease – none reported.
\nVitamin B6<\/strong>
\nchemical name – pyridoxamine, pyridoxal.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – anemia, peripheral neuropathy.
\nOverdose disease – nerve damage, proprioception is impaired (ability to sense stimuli within your own body is undermined).
\nVitamin B7<\/strong>
\nchemical name – biotin.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – dermatitis, enteritis.
\nOverdose disease – none reported.
\nVitamin B9<\/strong>
\nchemical name – folinic acid.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – birth defects during pregnancy, such as neural tube.
\nOverdose disease – seizure threshold possibly diminished.
\nVitamin B12<\/strong>
\nchemical name – cyanocobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, methylcobalamin.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – megaloblastic anemia (red blood cells without nucleus).
\nOverdose disease – none reported.
\nVitamin C<\/strong>
\nchemical name – ascorbic acid.
\nSolubility – water.
\nDeficiency disease – scurvy, which can lead to a large number of complications.
\nOverdose disease – vitamin C megadosage – diarrhea, nausea, skin irritation, burning upon urination, depletion of the mineral copper, and higher risk of kidney stones.
\nVitamin D<\/strong>
\nchemical name – ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol.
\nSolubility – fat.
\nDeficiency disease – rickets, osteomalacia (softening of bone), recent studies indicate higher risk of some cancers.
\nOverdose disease – hypervitaminosis D (headache, weakness, disturbed digestion, increased blood pressure, and tissue calcification).
\nVitamin E<\/strong>
\nchemical name – tocotrienols.
\nSolubility – fat.
\nDeficiency disease – very rare, may include hemolytic anemia in newborn babies.
\nOverdose disease – one study reported higher risk of congestive heart failure.
\nVitamin K<\/strong>
\nchemical name – phylloquinone, menaquinones.
\nSolubility – fat.
\nDeficiency disease – greater tendency to bleed.
\nOverdose disease – may undermine effects of warfarin.<\/p>\n