Facts About Vitamins
Nutrition experts will tell you that a well chosen diet filled with a variety of nutrient rich foods is the best way to meet your child’s nutritional requirements. That being said, most of those nutrition experts haven’t tried to convince a four year old to polish off a plate of broccoli and kidney beans. In the real world, getting kids to eat a sufficient amount of healthy foods can be tricky, so many parents choose to supplement their children’s diets with a daily multi-vitamin.
Facts About Vitamin A
Knowing the facts about vitamin A is important, as it plays a vital role in bone growth, reproduction and immune system health. It also helps the skin and mucous membranes repel bacteria and viruses more effectively. It is essential to healthy vision, and may slow declining retinal function in people with retinitis pigmentosa.
Vitamin B
There are many different forms of vitamin B, each of which has it’s own job or function within the body and all of which are vital to keep the body healthy and functioning normally. They are vital for brain function and preventing heart disease and are involved in absorbing nutrients from food as well as maintaining a healthy blood supply. In fact one or more B vitamins play a role in just about every organ and body process.
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin that was first isolated in the 1930s. There are three traditionally considerd forms of vitamin B6: pyridoxal (PL), pyridoxine (PN), pyridoxamine (PM). The phosphate ester derivative pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP) is the principal coenzyme form and has the most importance in human metabolism.
Vitamin D (calciferol):
Functions: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and helps deposit these minerals in bones and teeth to make them strong.
About Vitamin C
Vitamin C – more formally known as ascorbic acid – was first isolated by Hungarian biochemist Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgi in 1928. It is an essential nutrient for the formation and maintenance of collagen in the body, which is necessary for the growth, health, and repair of bones, tendons, and cartilage. Vitamin C is also critical for the formation of eight distinct enzymes that help regulate a variety of chemical body processes, and it is a powerful antioxidant that protects that health and integrity of cells.
Facts About Vitamin H
Biotin is a water soluble vitamin, which is also known as co-enzyme R and Vitamin H and has no known toxicity.
The bacteria in the intestinal tract produces biotin and small amounts of this vitamin can be stored in the kidneys, adrenal glands, brain and liver.
