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Ascorbic acid, or Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin, related chemically to glucose, which is only a vitamin for humans, higher primates, guinea pig, some fruit bats and some birds. The vast majority of animals, including farm, they can synthesize it, so do not accumulate in your body (or, possibly, secreted in milk). This [...]

Vitamins and minerals consumed in large quantities can be bad for the body, the National Food and Drug Administration in the UK, the FSA, warned.Some additional foods (supplements) are safe for consumption, the FSA said in a statement. But the appeals, the agency said Chromium Picolinate supplementation with high levels can cause cancer and drank [...]

The Omega-3 fatty acids may help children with depression Vitamin K has many properties or phytomenadione but notable for its preventive action of internal bleeding and care of the bones. There are 3 kinds of vitamin K: K1, K2 and K3. Like vitamins (A, D and E), vitamin K requires the absorption of fat and [...]

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient in higher primates and some other species also. Vitamin C is essential for some metabolic reactions of plants and animals and is created by most organisms except humans. The lack of vitamin C causes a disease called scurvy and therefore is given the name of ascorbic acid. Vitamin C [...]

Brief Definition Vitamin A belongs to the group of fat soluble vitamins (soluble in fat) is essential for the organism. This vitamin is present in foods of animal origin as a pre-formed vitamin A and retinol is called while the plant appears as provitamin A, also known as carotenoids that stands out among the beta [...]

What is it? The family of vitamin E includes eight substances, the best known is the alpha-tocopherol. One of the main functions of vitamin E is its antioxidant qualities, helping to neutralize free radicals in the body. Thus, it participates in protecting cells (primarily occurs at the level of their membrane) and has a particular [...]

Tryptophan Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that can not be synthesized by our body and therefore must be supplied by diet. A company of glucogenic amino acids is that their carbon skeletons can be converted into glucose and (glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, aspartate. Glutamate, proline, arginine, serine, threonine.). It also belongs to [...]

How fats affect of food on our body fats Once we know what kind of fats can be found in foods (fats from food) and how these are transformed and converted by our body moving in different lipid fractions foods (fats in our body), we interact as a with others and how this affects the [...]

Thiamine or vitamin B1 is a water soluble vitamin found in foods such as cereals, legumes, nuts, and meats. Vitamin B1 deficiency causes beriberi and, during pregnancy and other diseases can cause peripheral neuritis. Besides, being used to prevent deficiency states, thiamine is beneficial in the treatment of certain metabolic disorders associated with acute necrotizing [...]