Posts Tagged ‘Vitamins’
Foods Rich in Vitamin D
The importance of vitamin D for growth and development, especially in younger children is undeniable. I invite you to learn more about where food sources are.
There are only a few food sources of vitamin D. To begin, we mention fortified foods and beverages such as milk, soy drinks and margarine. Check the labels on these foods.
Fish, liver and egg yolk are the only foods that naturally contain vitamin D.
Overview of vitamins
Vitamins are organic molecules, even in small quantities, are essential for the proper functioning of our body. No single food contains them all, but all provide some.
1. What are they?
Vitamins are organic molecules essential for the proper functioning of our body.
The vast majority of vitamins are essential nutrients needed in small quantities, but must be made through a rich and balanced diet because our body can not synthesize them.
However, there are exceptions, such as vitamin D, which is formed in the skin of niacin or nicotinic acid, formed in liver from an essential amino acid (tryptophan) and vitamin K synthesized by bacteria from the intestinal flora.
2. Functions of vitamins
Vitamins are not used as fuel and provide no energy. However, their presence is essential for the agency to adopt and utilize the energy it needs and to provide other nutrients in the diet as carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.
In addition, vitamins help regulate the nervous system, as well as processes involved in formation of genetic material, protein, red blood cells and hormones.
The lack thereof may cause complex disorders and diseases, most of which are corrected with an adequate supply of them.
Multivitamins Are Like What?
Flooding multivitamin products on the market for child often makes parents actually paying less attention to what vitamins and minerals needed his son. Installation Head of Nutrition, RS Early Bros, AMG Kobandaha Lucky to Tribune, Saturday (30 / 5) said composition in a multivitamin should really be noticed.
Often parents pay more attention to the list of vitamins and minerals which are listed on the packaging label multivitamins. “Even some parents have only to compare the amount of content in a multivitamin,” said Lucky.
Yet more important in selecting a multivitamin is the number of nutritional and vitamin content. Furthermore, this Manado Nutrition Academy alumni advising parents to not easily consumed ad bid. Read the rest of this entry »
Eating Safely Multivitamins
Consuming a multivitamin supplement has been recommended for years to promote health. Especially for those who rarely ate vegetables and fruit. However, some studies say, the consumption of multivitamins too often could hasten death.
ConsumerLab.com, which became the pharmaceutical industry watchdog, found that 11 of the 21 products tested multivitamin that contains very little vitamin and it has a harmful chemical substances such as lead.
A Danish research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, states that excessive vitamin can actually shorten your age. Read the rest of this entry »
Why All Need Good Nutrition
A daily intake of vitamins, minerals and nutrients is essential for good health and energy.
In an ideal world we would get the right balance of foods we eat, but in today’s world it is almost impossible.
Weight problems and nutritional deficiencies extend between all of society and are due to poor eating habits such as overeating, skipping meals, peck, restrictive diets rebound, stres, cigarettes, alcohol … and many more factors. Read the rest of this entry »
Prenatal Vitamins Reduce Child Cancer Risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who take multivitamins before and during pregnancy reduced the chance of the baby developing certain types of tumors in childhood, researchers say.
The team led by G. Koren, of the University of Toronto, conducted a review of a large number of studies and found that taking a multivitamin before and during early pregnancy reduced by 36 percent the risk of childhood leukemia.
The prenatal vitamin supplement consumption was also associated with a 47 percent lower risk of developing neuroblastoma, a malignant tumor that grows in the nerve tissue, and a 27 percent lower risk of childhood brain tumors
Children and Multivitamins
Most parents think their children are eating pretty healthy and do not throw your hands in the air and give up. Next, provide their children with multivitamins.
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Most parents think their children are eating pretty healthy and do not throw your hands in the air and give up. Next, provide their children with multivitamins. Read the rest of this entry »
Minerals and Vitamins are Important to Adolescence
There are three minerals that are especially important in adolescence: calcium, iron and zinc. Each of them is related to a particular aspect of growth:
The calcium to the growth of bone mass. The iron with the development of blood-borne tissue (red cells) and muscle. The zinc with the development of bone and muscle mass. It also interacts with growth of hair and nails.
Calcium: recommended about 1200 mg / day. The availability is different depending on the food from which it derives most suitable food being milk and all its derivatives. Vitamin D, lactose and proteins that facilitate its absorption as fiber, caffeine and sugar make it difficult.
Iron: The RDA recommends a supplement of 2 mg / day for teen-age males during the period of maximum growth, between 10 and 17. For girls it is recommended a charge of 5mg/day after menarche. The iron is best absorbed from meat, while the source of grains, vegetables and other foods is absorbed worse.
Zinc is directly related to protein synthesis and thus with the formation of tissues and it is especially important in adolescence. Zinc deficiency is related to skin lesions, delayed wound healing, hair loss, brittle nails and so on. The chronic deficit can cause hypogonadism (small size of reproductive organs). The GDR established a daily intake of zinc at around 12 mg / day for girls and for boys 15mg/día.
The main source of zinc are meat, fish and eggs. Also complex cereals and legumes are an important source. Fiber acts to hinder its absorption.
Recommended for adolescents, especially vitamins that one or another way related to protein synthesis, growth and development: Vitamin A, D, and Folic Acid, B12, B6, Riboflavin, Niacin, and Thiamine without recommending specific minimum or neither. The main source of all of them are fruits and vegetables.