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Why vitamins?

The word 'vitamine' meaning a vital amine was proposed by a Polish Researcher, Dr Cacimir Funki, in 1911, to designate a new food which cure beri-beri. Other terms were proposed as new factor were discovered. But the word 'vitamin' with final 'e' dropped.
Vitamins are potent organic compounds which are found in small concentrations is food. They perform specific and vital functions in the body chemistry. They are like electric sparks which help to run the human motors. Except for a few exceptions, they cannot be manufactured or synthesized by the organisms and their absence and improper absorptions results in specific deficiency disease. It is not possible to sustain life without all the essential vitamins. In their natural states, they are found in minute quantities in organic foods. We must obtain them from these foods or in diary supplements.

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Vitamins which are of different kinds differ from each other in physiological functions. In chemical structure and in their distributions in foods. Vitamins are divided into two categories which are
1. Fat-soluble
2. Water-soluble
Vitamins A, D, E and K are all soluble in fat and are fat solvents and are therefore known as FAT-SOLUBLE. They are not easily lost by ordinary cooking methods and they can be restored in the body to some extent, mostly in the liver. They are measured in the international units.
Water-soluble vitamins are vitamin B Complex and vitamin C

They are dissolved easily in cooking water. A portion of this vitamins may actually be destroyed by heating. They cannot be stored in the body and hence they have to be taken daily in foods. Any extra quantity taken in any one day is eliminated as waste. There value are given in milligrams and micrograms.
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